Sutherton takes a lot of pictures. He doesn’t have space on his laptop for all of them, however, so he archives his photos to CD-Rs.

Months later, Sutherton wants to find a photo of a jellyfish for a report he is writing for school. He knows he snapped one at one of his several trips to the local aquarium. He does not want to wade through all of his CD-Rs to know which one contains the photo he took; he simply wants to locate images based on a keyword search and see a thumbnail of the photo.

1. Sutherton does a search for “jellyfish” and F-Spot returns results
2. He finds three photos which interest him, so he drags each to the shelf for later processing
   • The first one is on his hard drive, so everything works as usual
   • The second is on an external disk; F-Spot asks him to connect the drive so it can work with the full-size picture
   • The third is on a CD-R marked “Aquarium Trip - Feb ‘02” – F-Spot knows this and asks Sutherton to locate the CD for the higher res version
3. Sutherton works on the photos in edit mode
4. Sutherton saves the working group in the shelf as “Jellyfish Report”
5. From either the shelf or from the new group, Sutherton can print, export, and do other photo management tasks

• F-Spot should keep small thumbnails and info (including source) on photos, even on disconnected drives or removable media

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