[Digikam-users] Moving files outside digikam / digikam automation

[Ben Staude]

14:49 Samstag, 4.Februar 2012 Peter Albrecht <peter at crazymonkeys.de> wrote


> On 02.02.2012 00:07, Marie-Noëlle Augendre wrote:
> > 2012/2/1 Ben Staude <sben1783 at yahoo.de>
> >> The process of importing, for me, always happens when there's absolutely no
> >> time for nothing because I suddenly need the camera with an empty card to
> >> leave for the weekend or holiday. This always is the last thing that comes
> >> into my mind before leaving:)

> > I find this very strange, as importing pictures is the first thing I do
> > when I come back home; even if I have not enough time to sort all the
> > pictures I've taken, I usually like to browse them at least to roughly see
> > if 'the hunitng was good'. ;-)
> 
> My reason for "importing pictures as soon as you are back home":
> This gives you a first backup of your precious pictures,
> since after the import they exist in two places: Your PC and
> your memory card.

I remove the pictures from the memory card just after download (see above), but in
parallel,  I do start a backup from my PC to the external usb drive. I dislike the idea
of having only one copy of the pictures.
Anyway, like Marie-Noëlle: there's no time for splitting the images into their final
directories at download time:)

Thanks & regards
Ben