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

Anders Lund anders at alweb.dk
Fri Apr 13 12:19:38 BST 2012


Den 13-04-2012 12:57, John Stumbles skrev:
> On 09/04/12 14:00, Anders Lund wrote:
>
>> In the digikam import window, click the "settings" tab on the right 
>> to get a
>> lot of options for how to import. In the manual this is covered in 
>> the chapter
>> "Using a digital camera with digikam".
>
> OK I can see how to get this menu (it was a bit confusing because 
> there's a 'Settings' item on the menubar which is just the same as in 
> the main DigiKam window!) and I can specify a custom filename format 
> (I think [date:"yyyyMMdd_hhmmss"]_[file]{lower}.[ext]{lower} should do 
> what I want) but I can't find a way to specify my destination album: 
> if I use the [date:"yyyyMMdd"] format in my Date-based sub-album 
> specification it shows that it would come out as
>    Ex: [26ate:"19681226"]
> which is not what I want!
>
> Am I missing something or is DigiKam unable to do custom formats in 
> the destination album specification?
>
>
There is an option to put images in pr date subalbums, afaik that is the 
best offer at this point :)

Anders



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