[Digikam-users] camera is generating allready existing image names

[Duncan Hill]

Richard E Miles wrote:
> I am finding that when I download pictures from my Canon PowerShot
> A85
> camera that the image names match already existing image names in my
> album. This means I must tell digikam to rename the image in order to
> save the image. This is becoming very tedious as I have to do this for
> each new image downloaded. Is there a way to configure digikam to
> automatically do this? I know there is an overwrite all option but that
> would remove the already stored album photos which of course I want to keep.
> 

The other question is why is your A85 misbehaving like that?  The Canon 
A series normally generates a unique, incrementing name for each picture.

Have you reset the camera recently?

Have you tried doing downloads in to date-based albums?