How to keep your photos in sync with Flickr?

Question

I have a pdb text file with about 200 000 rows. Every rows looks like this :

COMPND
SOURCE    
HETATM    1  CT  100     1     -23.207  17.632  14.543
HETATM    2  CT   99     1     -22.069  18.353  15.280
HETATM    3  OH  101     1     -21.074  18.762  14.358
HETATM    4  F   103     1     -23.816  18.483  13.675
HETATM    5  F   103     1     -24.119  17.162  15.433
HETATM    6  F   103     1     -22.680  16.591  13.841
HETATM    7  HC  104     1     -21.623  17.681  16.014
HETATM    8  HC  104     1     -22.451  19.218  15.823
HETATM    9  HO  102     1     -21.040  18.108  13.673
HETATM   10  CT  100     2      -4.340 -29.478  45.144
HETATM   11  CT   99     2      -3.051 -29.846  44.395
HETATM   12  OH  101     2      -1.968 -29.072  44.880
HETATM   13  F   103     2      -4.217 -29.778  46.464
HETATM   14  F   103     2      -5.396 -30.156  44.621
HETATM   15  F   103     2      -4.551 -28.140  45.015
HETATM   16  HC  104     2      -3.178 -29.656  43.329
HETATM   17  HC  104     2      -2.829 -30.908  44.511
HETATM   18  HO  102     2      -2.315 -28.222  45.119
HETATM   19  CT  100     3     -49.455 -17.542 -31.718
HETATM   20  CT   99     3     -49.981 -18.984 -31.736
HETATM   21  OH  101     3     -48.905 -19.897 -31.607
HETATM   22  F   103     3     -48.867 -17.273 -30.521
HETATM   23  F   103     3     -50.474 -16.668 -31.929
HETATM   24  F   103     3     -48.527 -17.405 -32.704
...

I have to change all first CT for C1 and second CT for C2, and the same for F1, F2, F3 and HC to H1, H2.

Is it possible to change them with awk and sed in a small script? Each C1-C2 and F1,F2,F3 are part of the same molecule (trifluoroethanol - TFE) but there is many molecules of TFE to be defined.

So I want it to look like this :

COMPND
SOURCE    
HETATM    1  C1  100     1     -23.207  17.632  14.543
HETATM    2  C2   99     1     -22.069  18.353  15.280
HETATM    3  OH  101     1     -21.074  18.762  14.358
HETATM    4  F1  103     1     -23.816  18.483  13.675
HETATM    5  F2  103     1     -24.119  17.162  15.433
HETATM    6  F3  103     1     -22.680  16.591  13.841
HETATM    7  H1  104     1     -21.623  17.681  16.014
HETATM    8  H2  104     1     -22.451  19.218  15.823
HETATM    9  HO  102     1     -21.040  18.108  13.673
HETATM   10  C1  100     2      -4.340 -29.478  45.144
HETATM   11  C2   99     2      -3.051 -29.846  44.395
HETATM   12  OH  101     2      -1.968 -29.072  44.880
HETATM   13  F1  103     2      -4.217 -29.778  46.464
HETATM   14  F2  103     2      -5.396 -30.156  44.621
HETATM   15  F3  103     2      -4.551 -28.140  45.015
HETATM   16  H1  104     2      -3.178 -29.656  43.329
HETATM   17  H2  104     2      -2.829 -30.908  44.511
HETATM   18  HO  102     2      -2.315 -28.222  45.119
HETATM   19  C1  100     3     -49.455 -17.542 -31.718
HETATM   20  C2   99     3     -49.981 -18.984 -31.736
HETATM   21  OH  101     3     -48.905 -19.897 -31.607
HETATM   22  F1  103     3     -48.867 -17.273 -30.521
HETATM   23  F2  103     3     -50.474 -16.668 -31.929
HETATM   24  F3  103     3     -48.527 -17.405 -32.704
...

Thanks

Solution 1

Have you tried Desktop Flickr Organizer (dfo)? It is available in the Software Centre or "upload photos to Flickr (postr)" package?

I don't use Flickr and have not tested them myself..so give us feedback whether either of them works.

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OK, now comes the hacky solution. Haven't tested that either :)

Firstly you could look into flickrfs. As I understand it enables to create virtual drive through which you can upload/download your files between your Flickr account and Ubuntu.

To enable sync you could use additional application that would sync between your photos folder and that virtual drive. For an example, you could use rsync or Unison for that. If you go that route then remember to test the virtual drive before you set up the sync.

Might not work and probably painstaking to set up but hopefully works flawlessly ever after.

Solution 2

This python script: https://github.com/richq/folders2flickr/ is getting less and less hacky every day...

There has been active resurgence in development as it seemed to be the least "hacky" of the "hacky" options.

The developer is open to suggestions and contributions.

Solution 3

Try Conduit.

Conduit, a program for the Linux desktop, makes it simple to link your web data, desktop files, and other information all together, then synchronize them all with a single click.

What is Conduit?

Conduit is a synchronization application for GNOME. It allows you to synchronize your files, photos, emails, contacts, notes, calendar data and any other type of personal information and synchronize that data with another computer, an online service, or even another electronic device.

Conduit manages the synchronization and conversion of data into other formats. For example, Conduit allows you to :

• Synchronize your Tomboy notes with another computer
• Synchronize your your PIM data to your mobile phone, iPod, Nokia Internet tablet, or between computers
• Upload photos to Flickr, Picasa, SmugMug, ShutterFly and your iPod

Any combination you can imagine, Conduit will take care of the conversion and synchronization.

Conduit's interface is meant to make data-syncing simple, and, for the most part, it does. Simply drag and drop icons that represent your data in the "cloud" (Flickr photos, YouTube Videos, Box.net backups, etc.) or your actual, physical stuff (files, folders, iPods, data apps) into the "canvas," and start making connections. Add the "sources" of your data first, followed by all the points that will receive it. Right-click on any item in your chain to configure it, whether that means pointing to specific folders or logging into your Flickr, Box.net, or Facebook accounts from pop-up windows.

To install Conduit, just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:conduit/ppa
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install conduit

I installed Conduit on Ubuntu 13.04, and it works. I'm going to assumce that if it worked on 13.04, it will probably work on 12.10, and 12.04. Now I haven't tried it with flicker, since I don't have an account.

^{Source:Conduit}

Comments

[Admin]

Have a look at dfo. sudo apt-get install dfo.

[Admin]

OK, I'm gonna need some handholding here. How do I sync a directory?

[Admin]

Unfortunately I don't have a flickr account so I can't help you :/ I might be able to find someone else who does have a flickr account though.

[Admin]

on my opinion dfo is just on a half way. I did try it on Xubuntu, and nothing than errors and exceptions come out of this.

[Admin]

Desktop flickr organizer seems buggy for me. This is something that's on the shotwell wishlist (redmine.yorba.org/projects/shotwell/wiki/…) but the nearest bug report is this redmine.yorba.org/issues/2797 , would that be sufficient in the short term?

[Admin]

You can sync your pics folder to dropbox & then sync dropbox-to-flickr using wappwolf-dropbox-automator. Cons: its a one-way sync & dropbox offers only 5 GB free (it can be extended to 16 GB).

[Damn Terminal]

I have tried DFO, Frogr, and Shotwell. I haven't seen a sync option in either of those. Doesn't mean it isn't there, I could've missed it, but at the very least it wasn't obvious.

[Khurshid Alam]

Conduit is not available for > karmic(9.10) from that ppa. This project seems to be abandoned long ago. Synchronization doesn't work (or works very poorly) because Flickr recenetly changes its api.

[Mitch]

There is no mention on 9.10 in the question. I install it on 13.04, and it works. See additions in the answer above.

[Mitch]

Would let me know if this worked for, just so I'd know. Thanks

[Jonathan Leffler]

All the echo commands should use echo "$line" to preserve spaces (the first doesn't matter too much; the other two probably do matter). It seems a trifle clumsy to be at least one command per line of input when it can be done with a single command for the entire process.

[lxe]

The spaces are fine here. I'm just echoing stuff, not storing it to variables or iterating on anything.

[Grego]

Thanks but there is still a problem remaining. It stops at the 9999 row. Is there something to do?

[Grego]

HETATM 9999 HO 102 1111 -24.504 -16.257 -35.613 HETATM10000 CT 100 1112 9.045 23.978 29.038 HETATM10001 CT 99 1112 10.488 24.501 29.083 HETATM10002 OH 101 1112 11.370 23.545 28.522 HETATM10003 F 103 1112 8.650 23.804 27.749 HETATM10004 F 103 1112 8.209 24.855 29.654 HETATM10005 F 103 1112 8.996 22.779 29.679

[Grego]

I found my problem! NF < 3 { print; next } $2 != "CT" && $2 != "F" && $2 != "HC" { print; next } { if (old_col2 != $2) { counter = 0 } old_col2 = $2 $2 = substr($2, 1, 1) ++counter printf("%s %3s %4s %5s %11s %7s %7s \n", $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7); }

[Jonathan Leffler]

This illustrates that it is hard to code reliably when you don't have all the information needed. It wasn't clear from the sample data that you'd 'lose' a field when the second column reached 10,000. Many formats preserve white-space separated columns. This one doesn't. I wonder what happens if you ever get to a million rows in the file? However, adaptive code is probably best here; if (NF == 8) { …do it the 8-column way… } else { …do it the 7-column way… }. One gotcha to watch for is if column 9999 and 10,000 are both 'F' columns: then the old column has to be recognized properly.

[tripleee]

Though the whole if echo | grep -q could be better expressed with a case statement.

[Flimm]

This only allows uploads it seems, not downloads.