[Digikam-devel] [Bug 204006] New: automatic renaming of duplicate filenames during camera download

[andrew]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204006

           Summary: automatic renaming of duplicate filenames during
                    camera download
           Product: digikam
           Version: 0.10.0
          Platform: unspecified
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: digikam-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: andrew.dorrell at gmail.com


Version:           0.10.0 (using 4.3.00 (KDE 4.3.0), Chakra KDE)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.30-ARCH

One thing I just noticed about my new Nikon camera is that it re-uses
filenames.  In practice this means that after each time you format your media
you will get photos with the same name.  Combine that with date based folders
in your collection and things get difficult - if for example you fill your
media multiple times in a day, which I have been doing :-(

At the moment the download task in digikam stops when a download would cause a
file to be overwritten.  What I would like would be the option to automatically
rename (instead of just the usual skip, abort etc).  Just adding a single
character prefix or suffix would do the job and prevent me having to drop back
to a shell to do this.

A slightly more sophisticated variation on this might analyse the image
(metadata and or thumbnails) to see if the image appeared to be the same as the
one already on disk and automatically rename whenever the images are different;
prompting if they appeared to be the same image.

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