[Digikam-users] digiKam 3.5.0 import/rename not working as expected

[Andreas Mair]

Hi Gilles,

you suggest to use a beta release?
No go! First it's not (yet) in Gentoo, second I don't trust digiKam
betas because IHMO digiKam finals often have features not working as
expected and I don't think betas will do better :-(

Don't get me wrong:
I really don't want to rant, I really loved the rock solid digiKam
<2.0, but starting with digiKam 2.0 I've always had problems with this
or that feature. For example renaming at imports didn't work for me
since 3.2.0 (release 2013-05-15). With 4.0.0 coming in May this year
this means a full year with a broken feature.

Best wishes for a (hopefully) glorious release 4.0,
Andreas


2014-02-08 14:20 GMT+01:00 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:
> This feature must be fixed in last 4.0.0-beta2 release published one
> month ago...
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> 2014-02-08 10:52 GMT+01:00 Andreas Mair <amair.sob at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> recently digiKam 3.5.0 has been marked stable in Gentoo so I updated
>> from digiKam 3.2.0.
>> But after that importing photos didn't work any longer as expected.
>> All images are named "-1.jpg", "-2.jpg", "-3.jpg"... AVIs haven't been
>> imported at all.
>>
>> Playing a little bit around I've some workarounds:
>> - Importing AVIs works if I disable the date base folder creating
>> option, but filenames are "-1.avi", "-2.avi"...
>> - Filenames are OK if I change the rename mask from
>> "[meta:Exif.Image.DateTimeOriginal:yyyy-MM-dd_HHmmss]" to
>> "[date:yyyy-MM-dd_HHmmss]"
>>
>> Both is not what I want to change. I always want to use the date when
>> the photo has been taken. By using [date] I'm not sure if it's the
>> creation date or the last modification date. But I have the strong
>> feeling it's the later one, so I try to avoid using it.
>>
>> While looking at the rename mask I saw that there must have been a
>> change from [meta:Exif.Image.DateTimeOriginal] to
>> [meta:Exif.Photo.DateTimeOriginal]. If that's true I'd expected
>> digiKam to automagically change my rename mask. But both ways the
>> modifier "yyyy-MM-dd_HHmmss" doesn't work. Bug? Or do I use it the
>> wrong way?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Andreas
>>
>>
>> === My digiKam component informations ===
>> digiKam version 3.5.0
>> Exiv2 kann in JP2 speichern: Ja
>> Exiv2 kann in JPEG speichern: Ja
>> Exiv2 kann in PGF speichern: Ja
>> Exiv2 kann in PNG speichern: Ja
>> Exiv2 kann in TIFF speichern: Ja
>> Exiv2 unterstützt XMP-Metadaten: Ja
>> LibCImg: 130
>> LibEigen: 3.0.6
>> LibExiv2: 0.23
>> LibJPEG: 62
>> LibJasper: 1.900.1
>> LibKDE: 4.11.2
>> LibKExiv2: 2.3.1
>> LibKGeoMap: 2.0.0
>> LibKdcraw: 2.3.1
>> LibLCMS: 2050
>> LibLensFun: 0.2.7-0
>> LibPGF: 6.12.27 - Externe gemeinsame Bibliothek
>> LibPNG: 1.6.8
>> LibQt: 4.8.5
>> LibRaw: 0.15.4
>> LibTIFF: LIBTIFF, Version 4.0.3 Copyright (c) 1988-1996 Sam Leffler
>> Copyright (c) 1991-1996 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
>> Marble-Funktion: 0.16.2 (stable version)
>> Parallelisierte PGF-Codecs: Keine
>> Parallelisiertes Entfernen von Mosaikmustern: Ja
>> RawSpeed codec support: Keine
>> Datenbanktreiber: QSQLITE
>> KIPI-Module: 3.5.0
>> LibKface: 3.0.0
>> LibKipi: 2.1.0
>> LibOpenCV: 2.4.5
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