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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thanks for the detailed reply. Much
appreciated.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 29/05/2019 11:43, Remco Viëtor
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On mercredi 29 mai 2019 11:29:04 CEST Dougie Nisbet wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I'm retrying digikam after years of using shotwell (and previously
f-spot). After initially importing my original images in their original
location (~100,000) I'm now trying to import and copy from a local folder.
My workflow with shotwell is something like:
Images in /store1/images/YEAR/MONTH/DAY
New images somewhere local, e.g. /home/dougie/in
I rarely, if ever, import directly from a camera or memory card. I
prefer to do an initial pass, using something like geeqie, on my
incoming photos to weed out unwanted images. I may also add some
geolocation information.
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Digikam can also add the geolocation info, and scrolling through the images to
weed out unwanted ones is easy. I usually use the green/yellow/red flags to
mark images to keep/review/throw away on a first pass (using shortcuts to
navigate and tag), then select all red flags for deletion in one step.
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<p>Yes I sometimes do something similar in Shotwell, marking for
later deletion. I've not explored Digikam's geolocation
possibilities yet but generally I do this in Windows using the
geosetter program which I like. My two sources are usually iPhone
and DSLR. Usage is not consistent - the occasional event (several
hundred photos) then normally just a few each day. Probably not
too difficult to change my habits to manually store them in date
folders.<br>
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I've found:
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1. If I click on the Import option on the menu bar, digikam attempts to
look at my (unmounted) external USB drive where I store backup images.
It freezes the import window during this. However, during this time I
can see some rename options on the Import window, I just can't do
anything with it.
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Is the directory with your backups registered with Digikam as a collection?
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No. In fact the drive is not even mounted by default. In fact I'd
forgotten all about it until digikam spotted it. I have a nightly
script that runs overnight that mounts and unmounts it for the
backup. It does have an entry in /etc/fstab though.<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">2. If I disconnect my USB drive (the only way I could figure out how to
stop digikam looking at it), the Import option on the menu bar is
unavailable. The options on the Import drop-down menu are of little use.
From the searching I've done, I've seen various suggestions, including
Ctrl-I (no effect). The 'Add Images' and 'Add Folders' options are
greyed out.
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When I use the "Import" menu (on Digikam 6.1.0) with no external media
attached, I do get the "Add Folder" option, just options concerning external
media are grayed out. And there's no reason to have the "add images" and "add
folder" options grayed out, normally...
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I considered adding ~dougie/in as a collection, but I suspect it would
leave the photos in place, whereas I want them imported and renamed and
copied to /store1/images.
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You can still move the images around within and between collections from
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<p>Yes this is something that's impressed me a lot so far. It looks
like I can even rename files and digikam will cope quickly and
automatically. I often rename image files automatically using a
script based on the image tags. This is helpful if I want to store
them somewhere else - e.g. Dropbox - and perform searches for
particular photos.<br>
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Remco
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<p>Dougie</p>
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