Agisoft Metashape
Agisoft Metashape => General => Topic started by: Hollyg on June 01, 2012, 10:00:59 AM
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I have Photoscan Standard. I am new to using it, but think it's great!
Is there a way to relink photos if they have been moved?
I work for a film production company. I move around a lot and use various computers, therefore I would like to use Photoscan (and open my projects) on different computers (mac and Pc) but I can't work out how you change the images' location...?
Any help much appreciated
Holly
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Hello Holly,
Usually PhotoScan stores relative paths for images relatively to the project file, unless project is saved on another local or network drive.
Unfortunatelly, currently there is no built-in functionality allowing to change incorrect paths in PhotoScan project, but we plan to add such feature in future releases.
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Hey Alexey,
Great, thanks very much. For now I will carefully plan where I put my photos and I look forward the update which allows me to change location of photos and relink!
Photoscan is a great piece of software by the way.
Best
Holly
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Any news on this feature? I think that it's a major feature to be included before Photoscan becomes a 1.0 version. It's a pain to move Photoscan projects among machines or to a diferent directory. Every calculation must be made again...
Cheers
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If you've saved the project file (It'll be a .PSZ file) you can open it with 7Zip, it's a ZIP file.
Look for the "doc.xml" file. Open it up in a text editor like Notepad++ or Notepad2. The line <location path="filename.jpg" /> is what you're after. You might be able to edit it to <location path="\\networkpc\directory\filename.jpg" />, though I've not tried that (no network at home).
If there are a lot of photos, use Search & Replace. Search for:
<location path="
Replace with:
<location path="newdirectory
After you edit it just put it back into the ZIP file (replace the old one).
I wouldn't mind seeing a "Save with photos" option. It would be a huge file for some things but would make the PSZ 100% portable.
I found this when I was toying with structured light. I take one with the projection and a second with just white light. I align the structured light photos then edit the doc.xml file to replace all the photos with the white light ones and build the texture so I don't get all colour noise as a texture. Works quite well, as long as you don't bump anything.
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Thanks Asmordean, your solution worked as you said. Unfortunately I'm using mainly a Mac and I did not find yet a software able to do the same thing for this OSX.
Thanks