Uploading photos with OSX webdav¶

I'm now using OSX Finder's webdav support for uploading photos to my plone website. The generic ATContentTypes photoalbum view suits me just fine . I had just two problems with this:

• OSX Finder leaves '._name-of-image.jpg'-like temporary files in plone.
• The only info is the filename, so the title is the same as the filename: name-of-image.jpg.
• Update 2006-05-19: Stefan Holek has the solution for the .DS_store files that webdav leaves around. (I missed that problem).

I've written a small helper script that goes through my photo directory that removes the temporary files. It also changes the title of the files if the title is the same as the id: it removes the .jpg extension and it replaces the - and _ with a space: instant good titles, assuming you name your files in a sane way. That last one is a good idea anyway as it is important for google.

Here's the short script:

   # We do our work in '/plone/photos'
  # OSX webdav leaves files starting with '._', kill them off.
  # Finally, give files with title=id a new title, removing .jpg,
  # dashes, underscores, etc.
  LOCATION = '/plone/photos'
  REMOVE_START = '._'

  catalog = context.portal_catalog
  image_brains = catalog(Type='Image',
                         path=LOCATION)
  print "Found %s images." % len(image_brains)
  for image_brain in image_brains:
      id = image_brain.id
      title = image_brain.Title
      image = image_brain.getObject()
      if id.startswith(REMOVE_START):
          image.aq_parent.manage_delObjects(ids=[id])
          print "Removed %s" % id
          continue
      if id == title:
          title = title.replace('.jpg', '')
          title = title.replace('.JPG', '')
          title = title.replace('-', ' ')
          title = title.replace('_', ' ')
          image.setTitle(title)
          print "Renamed %s to %s" % (id, title)

  return printed

Note that I don't have a digital camera yet. I'm mostly scanning old photos at the moment, primarily for my own enjoyment, but also as others might like the photos. The family photos are of course only interesting for my family, but for instance the train part part is also intended as a target for google: people searching for just the specific locations that I photographed. The locations are specific, but the amount of googlers is big :-)