[digiKam-users] Rename - confused!

[Mick Sulley]

Thanks for the reply Remco, I now see what is happening, the problem is 
duplicates, but it is rather confusing.

To simplify, what I am seeing is -

New

IMG2
IMG3

Existing

PIC1
PIC2
PIC3
PIC4

rename and it shows

IMG2 => PIC2
ING3 => PIC3
PIC1 => PIC1
PIC2 => PIC2 - Error
PIC3 => PIC3 - Error
PIC4 => PIC4

If it had shown the rename of the new files as the error it would have 
been obvious, but this way it is not.  I thought that in previous 
versions it would have failed on the file whose name was to change 
rather than the existing one, but I may not be remembering that correctly.

Cheers

Mick


On 29/01/2021 11:03, Remco Viëtor wrote:
> On vendredi 29 janvier 2021 11:49:16 CET Mick Sulley wrote:
>> Digikam 7.1.0 AppImage
>>
>> I just moved some pics into a folder in my album, select all and F2 to
>> rename.  The new pics are all IMG... existing ones are PIC... the rule
>> is PIC[date]
>>
>> The rename window opens, lots of IMG renamed as PIC, all show in black
>> as expected, but further down there are some existing PIC that show the
>> same name as current and new, but they are in red. The 'OK' button is
>> greyed out.  All the new pics show as rename in black, only existing
>> ones have the problem.
>>
>> I assume that the ones in red are the reason OK is grey, but what is
>> wrong with them?
> I'd guess that you are trying to rename a file to a name that already exists
> in that directory. You are saying you have some PIC* files in there already.
>
> Alternatively, Digikam doesn't want to rename a file to the old name ->
> deselect those files (you can sort by name in the display, so all IMG* should
> be together at the start, left-click first and shift+left-click last to select
> the range)
>
> Remco
>
>