Storing jpegs and raw files in different directory structures

[Warren Baird]

Hi Maik,

That's basically what I'm proposing in my question --- but I'm wondering 
if digikam can automate that in some way - currently when I import my 
images, I get the jpeg and raw files all in one directory - I was hoping 
that there was some way to automatically have the jpegs go into a 
directory under one album, and the raw files go into the same directory 
in another album, so for instance if I take a trip to Germany, the jpegs 
might end up in .../jpegs/travel/germany and the raw files in 
.../raw/travel/germany.

If there is no better way, I'll just bring everything into one album, 
and run a script periodically that moves the raw files into the right 
directory - but that seems inelegant to me...

Warren

On 2023-06-12 12:49, Maik Qualmann wrote:
> Ok, that's clear then, I assumed that her drive is significantly smaller.
> Why not store the RAW files on an external USB removable media and only plug
> them in when needed?
>
> Maik
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> Am Montag, 12. Juni 2023, 13:45:59 CEST schrieb 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.
>>>
>>> Maik
>>>
>>> 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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