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

[Gilles Caulier]

Le ven. 17 juil. 2020 à 18:53, Jens Benecke
<jens-digikam at spamfreemail.de> a écrit :
>
> Am 15.07.20 um 08:38 schrieb jdd at dodin.org:
> > Le 14/07/2020 à 22:50, Jens Benecke a écrit :
> >
> >> But I am a little hesitant to rename >>100 photos using this tool.
> >> I use XMP sidecars for all files which then will also be renamed. Do
> >> these contain all metadata?
> >>
> > is it on Linux or Windows?
>
> Linux.
>
>
> > I have no experience on Windows with digiKam, but on Linux I'm pretty
> > sure digiKam use file inode ID (dunno the exact name), not name,
> > because you can easily test on a special folder than renaming with the
> > OS is immediately visible in digiKam
> > of course, the wmp file have to be renamed also
> > else, use que batch digiKam system :-)
>
> BQM does not work because I need to use 'convmv' which detects broken
> UTF8 characters. BQM would amount to manual renaming, which would take
> hours or days.

Under Windows, Unicode support for file name have been fixed
everywhere with new 7.0.0 release.

Best

Gilles Caulier