[Digikam-users] Importing several folders from the same card

[Jean-François Rabasse]

On Fri, 26 Jul 2013, Marie-Noëlle Augendre wrote:

> I don't know what PTP is. I use a USB card reader, that can read many card
> formats (for photography, I use Compact Flash or SD card, depending on the
> camera).

I apologize, I thought you were using direct connection between camera
and computer (and PTP is the transfert protocol in charge of that).
But if you use USB reader...
Ok, forget that :-)

> It seems easier to do a copy/paste from a Nautilus window. I'll just have
> to deactivate Digikam automatic launching when a card is put in the card
> reader.

Probably yes. Regarding that, I agree with Remco :

> If you want to keep the structure of the directories on the card,
> you can always download the data directly into the Digikam tree 
> (before starting Digikam) and then let the program see the new files 
> and import them into its database.

Regards,
Jean-François