[digiKam-users] Renaming images in another root/album

[Phil]

Exiftool (exiftool.org) is a general purpose and very flexible 
command-line tool for doing this kind of thing. The difficulty is 
figuring out the right options and syntax, if one is not familiar with 
it or forgets every time. A lot of documentation and examples are 
available online.

On 05/05/2021 20:54, digikam at 911networks.com wrote:
> DK 7.2.0 appimage.
> 
> I need to name/rename images in an other location.
> 
> All my photos hang from: /other/photos
> 
> My files are img_1234.cr2 and rename my regular images with:
> 
> text-[date:"yyyyMMdd"]-[file]{range:5,8} which gives me: text-20210505-1234.cr2.
> 
> It works extremely well when my images are in the /other/photos. But...
> 
> I have a bunch (a few hundreds) of temporary photos in
> "/home/myself/temp/photos", that I want to rename using DK. Is there
> a way of doing it without polluting my database? or some other
> software that gives access to the metadata?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> The photos in "/home/myself/temp/photos" are temporary and will never
> be in my "repository"
>