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

[Dougie Nisbet]

This was my first thought too but I got the impression that the OP had 
their mind set on renaming using DK itself.

One of the main reasons I moved from Shotwell to DK is that DK is so 
robust in allowing external renaming of files. I have a shell script 
that extracts tags and timestamps and creates filenames based on that. 
It's so useful and versatile to be able to search for a key piece of 
information in a filename. Works across platforms.  Then whenever I 
restart DK it automatically detects the filename changes and updates 
itself. It's a real dealbreaker for me.

Dougie

On 10/05/2021 16:17, Phil wrote:
> 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"
>>