[digiKam-users] how to import new pictures from Android

[frederic chaume]

Hi Gilles

"A smartphone as a network drive ? really..." => was thinking of the SD 
card only 😉

once connected I see it like this (note that I'm on windows)  and didn't 
find anypath that I can use in DK:






Le 18/01/2022 à 17:22, Gilles Caulier a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> A smartphone as a network drive ? really...
>
> 1/ select the transfert of photo from your smartphone as Usb Mass Storage.
> 2/ connect your smartphone to your computer and look if it detected as 
> an USB key.
> 3/ look where is mounted the smartphone by the system (path)
> 4/ Setup a UMS device in digiKam setup camera. configure the mounted path.
> 5/ on your camera, give the right to the computer to read contents (if 
> necessary).
> 6/ start the Import tool in digiKam.
>
> Best
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
>
>
> Le mar. 18 janv. 2022 à 17:13, frederic chaume 
> <frederic.chaume at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>     High all
>
>     I'm searching a way to import pictures from my smartphone (Samsung
>     A51)
>     as I'm doing with the SD card of my camera (select only new
>     pictures) .
>     I'm using it in parallel with my camera and importing the pictures
>     manualy is painful and not secure. In a previous discussion there
>     was a
>     proposal to use transfert tools like freefilesync, but it will detect
>     likely only new pictures until you didn't removed some already
>     imported
>     (then you will import them again)
>
>     So I tried again to investigate on the connection of my smartphone
>     to DK
>     (now using 7.5) but seems Digikam is looking for network drive
>     only and
>     I didn't find how to assign a drive to the SD card of my
>     smartphone. I
>     also look at DK configuration to create a camera , but same
>     problem, DK
>     is looking for a network drive.
>     This may not be a problem on DK side, but I'm wondering if someone
>     found
>     an efficient way for such import
>
>     thanks all for your feedback
>
>     Regards
>
>     Frederic
>
>
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