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

[Veaceslav Munteanu]

On Feb 8, 2014 6:22 PM, "Andreas Mair" <amair.sob at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
digiKam is growing bigger and bigger and it's too hard to keep track of
everything. If you don't want to install and test betas, the chance of bugs
passing in stable release is much bigger.
> 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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