I would love to be able to move images around without data loss. It seems like a really important feature to have in regards to maintaining a gallery.

That feature is already on our list and in the works. If you would like to put a little more pressure upon us to finish it, please vote for it on our poll on our news page..:-)

Just voted for it, grin. Looks like it's winning (and rightfully so).

I just dropped in and am reading this thread. Gee, never even thought about this one. I've only used FTP and copy/paste to get back the description. I vote YES for this option (on the poll)

I tossed in my vote as well.

In the meantime, does anyone know a way to export info in the database into the metadata of the images? I voted for the move feature as well!

I've just run into this as well where I've created a sub album since I have quite a few pictures in the main album and need to move them to the sub-album. However, the wife has posted comments and she will kill me if I lose them manually moving the files in the back end.

Do you think this will be implemented soon? It would be lovely to move images around without manually editing the database!

PLEASE!!!! I'm scared of losing info for the 3rd time! (Okay, once was my fault.) Especially since I've created subalbums and not sure if I want to use. I've postponed any data entry until this feature for fear if I change my mind about anything, I can't start over.

All I can say is that Trisweb is on it. The best workaround is to attach the info as EXIF data to the images directly.

I'm using version 1.1.6 [1550] atm. Any news on the moving images to different folder inculding comments and descriptions? Is there any change to automatically copy descriptions to meta? Is it only manualcopy-paste prcocedure?

No, that feature is still not there (a quick look at our news page and 1.1.7's changelog would have told you that, too...:-))

Really, the best solution at present to this is to store all your information about an image in its EXIF/IPTC metadata. Then you can move and copy at will and the information goes with the image.

The only problem I can see with the EXIF approach is loss of comments.
Also, can anyone recommend a program to edit the EXIF info? I use Paintshop Pro 7 for my photo editing and it doesn't support EXIF, and editing the info through Windows explorer is a pain.

I use Adobe Bridge. Not sure what products it comes with.

Adobe Bridge comes with the quite expensive Adobe CS3 Collections. I suggest to look at www.versiontracker.com, there are surely loads of free or shareware solutions.

is it in the new version 1.2.1?

In 1.2: http://www.zenphoto.org/2008/08/version-12/