Opening the import window to my iPhone now generates edited photos?

[Maik Qualmann]

It doesn't have to be an edited version, you can check this in the digiKam 
History tab. If the import detects that the file name already exists in the 
album, the file will be renamed with the _vx appendix. You may have downloaded 
the files twice or they may already exist twice with the file name on the phone. 
You can also change this automatic renaming to overwrite or skip in the 
digiKam camera settings. I would recommend using a current digiKam version.

Maik

Am Donnerstag, 28. September 2023, 14:13:20 CEST schrieb René J. V. Bertin:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been importing a lot of photos from my iPhone SE (1stG) because I'd let
> it fill up, and over the past few days I've started to notice a new
> behaviour. Edited versions of recent photos show up in the import window
> that I didn't create on my phone and that also don't seem to exist on my
> phone when I list the contents via iFuse. Judging from the order in which
> they appear in my date- sorted list they are generated during the metadata
> scan (the slow one that gets the metadata from the files).
> 
> After import there *are* indeed 2 versions, the edited version apparently
> the result of some kind of auto-level-balancing which doesn't always
> improve things.
> 
> What feature could I have activated that does this? What bothers me most is
> that it's unclear what happens when I delete those "virtual" edited
> versions off my phone, but I'd prefer to disable this behaviour.
> 
> I build most of my KDE apps myself and haven't done that for digiKam in a
> while so I'm still on 7.2.0 . I did however update iPhoto2 to the latest
> release versions 2-3 weeks ago. It's possible that the behaviour started
> after that and that I just didn't notice it because the edited versions
> appeared under the current date (and I was going to photos from the
> previous years).
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> R.