[digiKam-users] Organize messy album

[neinei at gmx.net]

Hi there,
Rapid Photo Downloader is also a very flexible and powerful tool with
GUI for sorting and importing photos and videos:
https://damonlynch.net/rapid/download.html
Best,
neinei

On 09.05.22 15:05, Phil wrote:
> In case you don't already know, you can do very flexible operations
> including complete renaming and reorganisation of your image files and
> directories using exiftool: https://www.exiftool.org
>
> It can take some time to work out the right syntax to use. One reference
> which has helped me when I've had to do this is:
> https://ninedegreesbelow.com/photography/exiftool-commands.html
>
> There are lots of other web pages which give exiftool examples,
> including the exiftool site itself.
>
> It's probably a good idea to experiment on a copy of small selection of
> your photos first. And as usual be really sure to have have really good
> backups :)
>
> On 09/05/2022 21:47, Doru Stoica wrote:
>> I think this tool fits perfectly to my needs, but I have to test it
>> first. I'm wondering if this functionality could be implemented in
>> digikam? Maybe in the Batch Queue Manager?
>> https://github.com/andrewning/sortphotos
>> <https://github.com/andrewning/sortphotos>
>>
>> On Sat, May 7, 2022 at 11:18 PM Doru Stoica <dorusto at gmail.com
>> <mailto:dorusto at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     This is how my folders look now, I was thinking of organizing them
>>     better. Do you think it is a good idea to leave them like this?
>>     image.png
>>
>>     On Sat, May 7, 2022 at 5:39 PM Steve Franks <stevef48 at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:stevef48 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         I'm not sure that I understand the question. Does the screenshot
>>         show how you have organised your photos, or how you would like
>>         to organise them?
>>
>>         My photos are organised in a similar way, except that I name
>>         each folder as YYYY-MM-Month for example:-
>>         2022
>>             2022-01-January
>>             2022-02-February
>>         etc.
>>         Regards
>>         Steve
>>
>>
>>         On Fri, 6 May 2022 at 21:02, Doru Stoica <dorusto at gmail.com
>>         <mailto:dorusto at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>             Dear digikam users,
>>
>>             Is there a way to organize my messy folder album into the
>>             organized structure as digikam is doing in dates directory?
>>             Thanks!
>>
>>             image.png
>>
>>             --             Kind regards,
>>             Doru Iulian Stoica
>>
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>>     --     Kind regards,
>>     Doru Iulian Stoica
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>> Kind regards,
>> Doru Iulian Stoica
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