Export informations, keywords, and file properties

Export Information
Version: for Dig. Cam. / for 3D Users
menu access: Information / Export Information...

This command exports your files information, keywords or properties in a text file. Use the information or keywords panels to edit this information. In order to export up to date information, catalogue are updated if necessary. Information is exported using the 3D Photo Browser current sort order.

At the end of the process, you obtain a file such the following one:

<brtfilename(fullpath)>;<brtfilename(createdate(d))>;<brtfilename(size)>;<brt2dheight>;<brt2dwidth>
E:\tmp\file1.jpg;12/11/2003;1.03 Mo;1600;1200
E:\tmp\file2.gif;12/11/2003;951.63 Ko;1200;1600
E:\tmp\file3.psd;12/11/2003;727.69 Ko;1200;1600

The first line contains the information tags that you choose to export. Separator used is the semi column. Exported fields are file path, file creation date and the image width and height. Once exported, the file can be edited using a text editor or a spreadsheet. It also can be imported in a database or reimported into 3D Photo Browser.

Note: 3D Photo Browser uses the quote " character to delimit field when needed during the exportation.

Source directory

Define the directory, which contains the files to export.

Current selection exports only the information of the files, which are selected in the 3D Photo Browser main window. This option is inactive if no files are selected.

Current directory / Current album exports all files contained in 3D Photo Browser current directory or current album.

Selected directory exports the files, which are in a selected directory. Enter its path or select it using the browse... button.

Current selection

Current directory / Current album

Selected directory

Browse...

Include sub directories

This option is inactive when Current selection or Current album option is selected.

Include sub directories includes sub directories files to the exportation process.

Separator Enter the character, which separates each field in the exported text file.
Kind of files Select the kind of files you want to export. The All recognized file option allows files recognized by the application to be export (images, 3D scenes and audio files).

Filter

Extensions edition field

Select No filter to ignore the extensions list and process the files, which match the selected kind of files option.

Select Include the extensions to process files, which extension match the ones specified.

Select Exclude the extensions to exclude from the process files, which extension match the ones specified.

Use the extensions field to edit the extensions you want to include or exclude to/from the exportation. Extensions can contain wildcards.
For example: *.jpg a*.gif ???1.lwo

Information to export

This list contains the information tags you want to export. By default the list contains the full file path tag, in order to know which file the information applied to.

Use the Tags >> button to add an information tag to the exportation list. An option adds all the possible tags to the list. Another option adds only tags that can be edited and re-imported in 3D Photo Browser. For example, the tag Size of file cannot be re-imported, because file size can be edited and depends only of the file.

You can modify the order of the exported tags, using the up and down button. You can also remove a tag from the exportation by using the delete button (cross).

Note: If you need to re-import the information, the exported file must contain tags, which allow the full file paths to be rebuilt. This information can be spread over different fields (for example you may use the path tag (C:\tmp) , the file name (ie. example) and the extension (ie. jpg)).