[Digikam-devel] [Bug 230553] New: {unique} and [cam] produce strange results on importing from a flash memory card

[Matti Rintala]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=230553

           Summary: {unique} and [cam] produce strange results on
                    importing from a flash memory card
           Product: digikam
           Version: 1.1.0
          Platform: openSUSE RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: digikam-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: bitti at cs.tut.fi


Version:           1.1.0 (using KDE 4.3.5)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    openSUSE RPMs

When I try to rename images while importing them from my camera's SD card
(using a card reader), the rename options produce strange results (they seem to
work ok if I rename the images after they have been imported)

I like to name my images to contain the date, time and camera model. If two
images with the same camera have been created during the same second
(continuous shooting), I add a unique sequence number to the name. Earlier I've
used my own script to do this, but now I thought Digikam's import could do the
work.

It seems that {unique} *always* produces a sequence number on import, even if
no other images with a similar name exist (this number is sometimes 1,
sometimes larger). In addition to this, [cam] seems to produce the string
'ImagesonUSBDisk"STORAGEDEVICE"' instead of looking up the camera name from
EXIF.

For example, when I imported an image from the card using format string

[date:yyMMdd_hhmmss]{unique}-[cam].[ext]{lower}

My image DSC_2428.NEF became

100313_121400_6-ImagesonUSBDisk"STORAGEDEVICE".nef

and I imported just one image into an empty directory. If I later rename it
using the same format string, I get

100313_121400-NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D40.nef

(In reality I would use [date:yyMMdd_hhmmss]{unique}-[cam]{replace:".*
([a-z][A-Z][0-9])*","\1",ri}.[ext]{lower} to use just the model number of the
camera string)

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