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<p>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.</p>
<p>My workflow with shotwell is something like:</p>
<p>Images in /store1/images/YEAR/MONTH/DAY</p>
<p>New images somewhere local, e.g. /home/dougie/in</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>In shotwell, the import process would copy and relocate according
to photo date into /store1/images/YEAR/MONTH/DAY. I can't see how
to do this in digikam.</p>
<p>I've found:</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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. <br>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>Thanks for any help,</p>
<p>Dougie</p>
<p>Running Digikam 6.1.0 on Debian Stable using
digikam-6.1.0-x86-64.appimage </p>
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