Comment 5 for bug 579808

Personally I prefer the leave my files, save an alternate copy if I want it, perhaps with an alternate location. This sort of follows things like Light Room, F-Spot and Picasa which I suspect are managers most people come from.

From our use we like to have an original shared resource that is unchanged and save out to our own library our modified files versions. That means we can have links to a common image and our own changes are consistent and preserved.

As more and more photos are kept by individuals, families and businesses on external drives, NAS or servers I think something that works in this sort of way in a distributed multi-device, multi-user environment would be best. Just my 2 pence(cents) worth ;-)