Storing jpegs and raw files in different directory structures

[Warren Baird]

Hi Maik,

Well, drives larger than 2TB  are moderately expensive, and if I do 
this, I estimate I'll free up enough disk on the laptop for another 
100,000 jpegs - which is more photos than I'm likely to take in the 
lifetime of the laptop...

Warren

On 2023-06-12 01:55, Maik Qualmann wrote:
> Regardless of the software solution, why not just buy a larger NVMe disk,
> clone disk and expand partitions, done. At some point your current NVMe disk
> will be too small anyway.
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> Maik
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> Am Montag, 12. Juni 2023, 00:00:06 CEST schrieb Warren Baird:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> slightly odd question:  I have a laptop that I use to work with my
>> photos when I'm not at home.   I synchronize my digikam directory
>> between my primary computer and my laptop with unison.
>>
>> Unfortunately my digikam directory is getting so large that I am running
>> out of space on my laptop, which only has a single NVMe slot, so I can't
>> easily increase the amount of disk space there.
>>
>> I normally shoot with my camera set to record both jpg and raw files,
>> and the raw files are a *lot* bigger than the jpegs, however, 99% of the
>> time I work with the jpg files, I only rarely have to do something with
>> the raw files (i.e. if something ends up being really underexposed, etc.)
>>
>> What I'd like to do to resolve this is have to parallel versions of my
>> digikam directory, one with jpg, one with raw files, and then I can just
>> sync the jpg directory to my laptop.
>>
>> I can definitely write a python script that periodically trolls through
>> my directory and moves any raw files it finds into the appropriate spot
>> in the other directory, but it might be easier if there was some
>> built-in way to do it in digikam.
>>
>> Any ideas?   I'm ok using a script to split the directories now - but
>> it'd be nice in the future if I could tell digikam to put jpgs in this
>> structure, and raw files in this structure when I'm importing new files.
>>
>> Thanks!!
>>
>> Warren
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