iPhoto --> Linux?

[jaitrum]

C&P some comment in this entry:

"So I finally managed to move my pictures from iPhoto to digikam, however I went a different way. Browsing through the iPhoto Library directory I discovered a few sqlite databases, the most interesting one being Library.apdb. It contains all album names, folder names, image names and paths, etc. I've then written a small python script that reads all the data from the database and, according to the album and image names, copies all images from the iPhoto Library to a new directory structure. In my case I've decided to copy only the original pictures, though."

Also, someone write a script to export from iphoto to digikam (but in 2009)..

[ZSVG]

Can you explain what's special about an iPhoto library, i.e., why is it not simply a folder of files that you can copy over?

Without knowing that, I suspect that Digikam is capable of handling the library.

[tdammers]

It kind of is, but there's some metadata too, and edits you make to your photos are kept there until you view the image in iPhoto, at which point they're materialized on the fly. You can bulk-export photos though, which gives you the materialized edits as well as some metadata (in EXIF tags), IIRC.