Hi,

I need a program for adding keywords to my pictures and movies, so i can search for all the pictures with uncle Bob in it or search for all my action movies...
Would be great if you knew just the application for this...

-Aimo

AFAIK it is not possible with current filesystems. You could of course use folders, though, and if a picture can have multiple tags (in multiple folders), hard link them (so the picture appears in all of them, but only takes up the space of 1).

I think google's Picasa would do this. You can add comments that are retained in their database. If you add tags to files, such as exif comments in pictures, then you may be able to search for them using Kerry Beagle. I'm not certain of this.

Another thing to look at is setfattr to add file attributes which are name=value entries.
A file entry can contain a number of these name="value" entries. I think that attributes in the user namespace can contain what you want.

The beagle search daemon uses these attributes to record whether a file has already been scanned. You need ext2, ext3 or xfs to use these attributes.

It all sounds a little too complicated for such a small job... Like there is id tags in .mp3 files i thought there was an application to put tags in all sorts of files... But apparently not... Thanks anyway..

-Aimo