[Digikam-users] Re: Rename Files difficulties

[Elle Stone]

Hi Dan,

I've been experimenting with renaming. I rewrote your structure/example:

(1)[Digital or Arg, 1 digit]
(2)[camera,4 digits]_
(3)[num in 6 digits]_
(4)[corrections of files, in 4  - 5 digits].
(5)[ext, respect each ext in case of multiple]

ND80_000001.jpg
ND80_000002.jpg
ND80_000002_YQ.jpg
ND80_000002.nef
ND80_000003.jpg

I don't see an example of (1).
The ND80_ is (2)
The sequential numbers eg 000001_  is (3).
"YQ" is an example of (4).
and of course the extension eg jpg is (5).

In theory, in the rename dialog:

ND80_######[ef]

would give you all of your exampes except ND80_000002_YQ.jpg.
But you would have to preselect only images that come from the ND80 camera.

[cam]_######[ef] would give camera information, but a much longer file
name (more than your desired four places/digits for the camera) - and
what if you have more than one camera of the same make and model?

As for the YQ, I don't see any way to automatically add the YQ except
the same way as adding your example camera id, that is, after doing
the initial renaming, preselect and append:

[file]_YQ

You can also prepend:

whatever_[file]

I tried appending _YQ again to three files (in my test album, of
course! not having a clue what you mean by "YQ"), two of which already
had _YQ, using the option {removedoubles}, but I still got two "YQ"s
in the two file names that already had a YQ. So unless you are
careful, renaming could produce some weird file names.

[file]{replace:"_YQ",""}{trim} got rid of some white spaces in the
file names that I had inadvertently introduced, and also got rid of
ALL of the _YQ.

To see the options, click on the "i" in the blue circle in the rename
dialog. The options look pretty powerful.

Like Dan, I am planning on renaming a whole lot of files. Could more
experienced digikam users perhaps offer guidance in the way of
"gotchas" to be aware of when renaming files?

Elle Stone


On 1/4/11, dantou_Poste <dantou at laposte.net> wrote:
> Hi
> I want to rename files with this structure : [Digital or Arg, 1
> digit][camera,4 digits]_[num in 6 digits - have above of 40 000 files,
> so]_[corrections of files, in 4  - 5 digits].[ext, 3 digits, by respect
> each ext in case of double] ex ND80_000001.jpg, ND80_000002.jpg,
> ND80_000002_YQ.jpg, ND80_000002.nef, ND80_000003.jpg, ...
> Have anybody a solution ? or why succeed on Dgk (as on this screen-copy,
> i don't )
> Thanks
> Regards Dan
>
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