[Digikam-users] What does DK's import from card do?

[Peter Albrecht]

That seems to be quite identical to the steps I use DK
import for.

Picture "IMG_6917.JPG" from SD-Card becomes
"(2012-04-09)\EOS-img_6917.jpg" on HDD.

And the pictures are auto-rotated. The naming is very
powerful. As an example I use the template:

  [cam]{range:13,15}-[file]{lower}.[ext]{lower}

Just have a try. I can't think of anything bad, which might
happen from trying.

DigiKam tries to remember, which pictures it has imported.
So you can use "import all new pictures form SD card". But
this is currently not working very well at my setup.
Sometimes pictures are not marked as "already imported".
Didn't have the time to investigate further, sorry.

Peter

On 09.04.2012 14:33, John Stumbles wrote:
> (Apologies if this is an RTFM/STFW question but I couldn't
> find the answer!)
> 
> With DigiKam installed on a Linux KDE system when I plug in
> a camera's memory card KDE offers me options to open a file
> manager or import pictures with DK. I've always imported
> pictures using my own script (http://yaph.org.uk/photo/)
> which renames each image file, transposing UPPER CASE to
> lower and prefixing the camera-generated filename with a
> date-and-timestamp derived from the image creation time in
> YYYYMMDD_hhmmss format and puts them in a directory with
> today's date e.g.  ~/pix/2012/20120409. It also auto-rotates
> images according to their exif orientation tag.
> 
> Can DK do anything like this? Especially naming the files in
> the format I'm currently using: I would not want to try to
> rename my existing collection of images to match a different
> scheme just to suit DK.
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