DAM, DAM with Digikam. Importing photos from a memory card.

[Mark Hayes (Hotmail)]

Dear all,

Another question - about importing from a memory card.  

This one is quite simple really, but confusing nevertheless, and consequently a bit of a PITA for any newbie to the Digikam (or Linux, for that matter).

When I insert a memory card, I have some difficulties in picking the right memory card up from within Digikam when I want to import...

Quite simply, the name for the card/device that Digikam picks up is not the same as the name that is displayed by the KDE system etc...  This means that I have to click through several attached devices, working out which one is the one with my photos on it before I am able to download.  

How do I make sure that devices/cards attached are shown up under the same names as are notified to me by KDE when I plug in the card in the first place?  It's only a little tiny thing, but anything that makes life easier and more transparent to the user has got to be a good thing, right?

Consistency can only help - and either my setup is wrong, or something could do with tweaking.  How do I go about fixing this?

Many thanks,

Mark.

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Le 25/01/2012 15:03, Mark Hayes (Hotmail) a écrit :

> When I insert a memory card, I have some difficulties in picking
> the right memory card up from within Digikam when I want to
> import...

I always copy fropm card with an explorer (Dolphin, for
Linux/openSUSE/Kde)

jdd


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[Anders Lund]

On Onsdag den 25. januar 2012, Mark Hayes (Hotmail) wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Another question - about importing from a memory card.
>
> This one is quite simple really, but confusing nevertheless, and
> consequently a bit of a PITA for any newbie to the Digikam (or Linux, for
> that matter).
>
> When I insert a memory card, I have some difficulties in picking the right
> memory card up from within Digikam when I want to import...
>
> Quite simply, the name for the card/device that Digikam picks up is not the
> same as the name that is displayed by the KDE system etc...  This means
> that I have to click through several attached devices, working out which
> one is the one with my photos on it before I am able to download.
>
> How do I make sure that devices/cards attached are shown up under the same
> names as are notified to me by KDE when I plug in the card in the first
> place?  It's only a little tiny thing, but anything that makes life easier
> and more transparent to the user has got to be a good thing, right?
>
> Consistency can only help - and either my setup is wrong, or something
> could do with tweaking.  How do I go about fixing this?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Mark.

If you use KDE, why not just use the device notifier action to import images
with digikam? It will use a running instance of digikam if there is one.

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2012/1/25 Mark Hayes (Hotmail) <[hidden email]>

When I insert a memory card, I have some difficulties in picking the right memory card up from within Digikam when I want to import...

Never had this problem: when I insert a memory card with pictures in it, Digikam launches itself and the import window opens automatically.
And when I have several cards to unload, I usually close Digikam each time, because each new card launches another instance of Digikam; in fact, it would be easier if it could detect that Digikam is aleready running.

Marie-Noëlle
 

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