Downloading photos - mirror card's directory structure

[Kyle Altendorf]

Not a big deal but I want to make sure I'm not missing something.  I
store my photos on my hdd with the same directory structure as the
camera creates on the card (DCIM/xxx_PANA/Pxxxyyyy.jpg for my old
FZ15).  As far as I can tell digiKam's import feature takes all photos
and puts them into a single directory on the hdd (except for
date-based or extension based sub-albums).  I tried to use a rename
pattern like '[dir]/[file].[ext]', but the '/' character isn't
allowed.

Am I missing something that would let me do it my way?  Thanks for any comments.

Cheers,
-kyle
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Le 09/12/2010 00:40, Kyle Altendorf a écrit :

> Am I missing something that would let me do it my way?  Thanks for any comments.

copy with your explorer? eventually directly from the memory card?

jdd

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[Kyle Altendorf]

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 03:04, jdd <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Le 09/12/2010 00:40, Kyle Altendorf a écrit :
>
>> Am I missing something that would let me do it my way?  Thanks for any comments.
>
> copy with your explorer? eventually directly from the memory card?
>

Yep, that's what I've been doing for the past 10k photos.  I'm looking
for the ability to do that within digiKam.  If it weren't for the
blocking of the '/' character I would functionally be there already
(though that wouldn't quite be duplicating the path down to the root
of the memory card).

Cheers,
-kyle
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Le 09/12/2010 16:53, Kyle Altendorf a écrit :

>> copy with your explorer? eventually directly from the memory card?
>>
>
> Yep, that's what I've been doing for the past 10k photos.  I'm looking
> for the ability to do that within digiKam.

until digikam handle the revision history, this is pretty dangerous.

personnaly, I always keep a brand raw copy of all my photos and always
work with digikam on a copy. Frequently enough I come to don't like
the work done previous day, and I need to go back to the original.

I often keep as long as possible the photos on the camera card, but is
never very long when one use really his camera :-)

jdd

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[Kyle Altendorf]

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:14, jdd <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Le 09/12/2010 16:53, Kyle Altendorf a écrit :
>
>>> copy with your explorer? eventually directly from the memory card?
>>>
>>
>> Yep, that's what I've been doing for the past 10k photos.  I'm looking
>> for the ability to do that within digiKam.
>
> until digikam handle the revision history, this is pretty dangerous.

I've been eagerly awaiting versioning support in digiKam since before
IdImager got it a few years back.  Needless to say I am very excited
about the upcoming 2.0.  :]

> personnaly, I always keep a brand raw copy of all my photos and always
> work with digikam on a copy. Frequently enough I come to don't like
> the work done previous day, and I need to go back to the original.

I never (except when I really screw up) save over the original files
from my camera.  I also duplicate most of my data between my laptop
and desktop on a weekly basis.  Even when working within Photoshop I
created scripts and layers to apply to the original image such that
all of my changes could be individually tweaked and the whole image
recalculated from original to final cropped result.

Anyways, thanks for the comments.

Cheers,
-kyle
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