[Digikam-users] Easy way to simply copy selected files out of Digikam?

[Chris G]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 01:27:42PM +0100, Arnd Baecker wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Chris G wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:19:38PM +0100, Markus Spring wrote:
> > > Chris G wrote:
> > > > Is there no way to select a number of pictures in Digikam and then
> > > > copy them to some other directory?  I want to copy a number of
> > > > pictures to an SD memory card but I can't see an easy way to do it.
> > >
> > > Try drag-and-drop into a konqueror window. This works fine for me.
> > >
> > What's konqueror?  Well, I sort of know but I'm running an fvwm2
> > desktop with virtually no GUI applications at all.  I really want a
> > way to ask Digikam to write selected files to a specified (as in I
> > type it in) directory.
> >
> > At the moment I have created a 'destination' album in Digikam and I'm
> > dragging and dropping to there for subsequent copying which is OK but
> > not perfect.
> 
> You can add additional actions for the RMB menu, see
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88932#c7
> 
> So you just need a simple script which would run over all the marked
> files and copy them somewhere.
> 
> E.g, in the example given in the above bug you could use
> the following python snippet (untested!):
>     for fname in sys.argv[1:]
>         print fname
>         command =  """ cp -p "%s" "/tmp/COPY/" """ % fname
>         print command
>  	# un-comment the following line if the script works ...
>         #os.system(command)
> 
Useful, thank you.  ... and it's python which I know a little.

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Chris Green