[digiKam-users] Renaming lots of photo filenames (using convmv). Best practice?

[HaJo Schatz]

I'd
1) back up everything
2) write all metadata to xmp's
3) rename files
4) re-import into Digikam

Between 2) & 3) possibly delete the Digikam database file?
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On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 4:50 AM Jens Benecke <jens-digikam at spamfreemail.de>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I noticed that my library has quite a number of photos with broken
> umlauts due to some UTF-8 name mangling, and that I can fix this using
> the 'convmv' tool which was introduced in Linux when UTF-8 became the
> standard encoding everywhere. It automatically detects filenames with
> invalid encodings and renames them to the correct form.
>
> But I am a little hesitant to rename >>100 photos using this tool.
>
> What will Digikam do with the metadata when the photos are renamed? All
> images have tags and ratings, many have descriptions and titles.
> Will I leave orphaned entries in the database?
> Will the image metadata be kept and applied to the renamed files?
> Do I need to (or should I?) let Digikam run in the background while
> renaming so it can detect the change in the file system?
>
> I use XMP sidecars for all files which then will also be renamed. Do
> these contain all metadata?
>
> There are too many files to be renamed to do it manually within Digikam
> (that would take hours) so that is not an option.
>
> How should I proceed?
>
> --
> Regards, Jens
>
>
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