[digiKam-users] Problematic handling of file name conflicts when moving files

[Thomas D]

Hi,

When moving a set of photos from one album to another file conflicts may
arise. Especially if more than one camera is being used - because they may
run into the same number sequence used then naming files.
So moving files from one album to another and experiencing a file name
conflict should be a fairly common thing and something that is handled in
the best way possible.

What actually happens in Digikam 7 is that existing files in the set are
semi silently ignored. A short-lived popup is seen in the lower right
corner like this:

[image: image.png]

saying that "a file or folder named XXX already exist in YYY".

The non-conflicting files are successfully moved.


There are several problems here.

1: The user is given no options to remedy the situation. There is no dialog
showing the user the two photos side-by-side for comparison or giving
options as to whether they want to replace, skip or rename the conflicting
files.

2: The user may have spent considerable time selecting the set of photos
going into the album. It may be hundreds of photos. When a random subset of
these files are moved and the others not, the work the user did by
selecting the files is lost.

3: There seems to be no obvious way to abort/undo the partial move
operation that just occured. So now a random subset of the files was moved
into an album. It should be possible to at least unto the move operation so
as to get the moved images back and into the selection.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-users/attachments/20200626/1d600049/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image.png
Type: image/png
Size: 11263 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-users/attachments/20200626/1d600049/attachment.png>