<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>Hello</div><div><br></div><div>There are numerous ways in digikam to do that - tags (keywords), pick labels, color labels, star rating.</div><div>You can just tag all the images with one of the above listed options and use digikam search tab in the left panel to find them all. You can also use the search in the right panel to narow down the results of the initial search (left panel)</div><div><br></div><div>You don't have to write a script to rename your images. Digikam import or batch processing tool can do that. So does Rapid Photo Downloader (another open source tool).</div><div><br></div><div>Probably the easiest way to add a tag to all images and rename files at the same time is to use Import tool in digikam.</div><div>I use RPD personally because it handles video files better.</div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.</div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: BensonBear <benson.bear@gmail.com> </div><div>Date: 2017-09-20 6:40 PM (GMT-07:00) </div><div>To: digikam-users@kde.org </div><div>Subject: Displaying photos without segregating by album </div><div><br></div></div>We have about 30,000 photos from ten cameras (four still active, some<br>occasionally used, some retired). They are stored using one directory per<br>camera, with the exact file names and structure employed by each camera. <br>However, we would like to organize and select by tags and date independent<br>of the camera, in other words, so that the photos from the different cameras<br>appear, not in separate albums, but mixed in together when sorted by time,<br>for example (as they often are about the same subject in time).<br><br>What is the best way to do this in digikam? The only was I can see to do it<br>as a potential new user is to actually put all of the photos in the same<br>directory (and not even in subdirectories). Otherwise the folder structure<br>appears to be mirrored in the album and cannot be gotten rid of.<br><br>I don't really like the idea of putting 30,000 photos (and then more later<br>on) into one directory. Also, in at least some cases the names will<br>overlap since they come from two identical phones. <br> <br>I was thinking of writing a python script to make new names for all the<br>files and store the old names in exif, with these names being links in a<br>new, single, directory (or maybe just renaming the files and moving to one<br>directory). Something like YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM-SS-CAMERA-VERSION (where<br>version will define photos that are derived from the original). <br><br>Is there some better way to do it?<br><br><br><br><br>--<br>Sent from: http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/digikam-users-f1735189.html<br></body></html>