auto download photos from camera? on ubuntu?

[Matt Wilkie]

Hello All,

Does anyone know how to setup Digikam to automatically download photos when a usb camera is plugged in?

Our camera is a Canon PowerShot S1. On Windows, all we have to do is connect the camera and the photos are automatically downloaded using Canon's program Camera Window and saved to year/month/day sub-directories of a configured parent folder (e.g. home/Pictures) without any user intervention. The whole setup is so simple and friction-free that anyone in family can do it.

I've read the FAQ "Using hotplugging with digiKam" http://www.digikam.org/?q=node/36 which seems like it might be about addressing auto picture download, but it is written for digikam of 3 years ago (v0.7) and requires KDE as the active window manager. Is this the only way?

We're running Ubuntu 7.04 amd64.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts and time,

-matt

[Matt Wilkie]

Got it!

System > Preferences > Removable Media > Camera

and change “gnome-volume-manager-gthumb %h” to one of the following. Which one depends on whether your camera mounts as a removable drive or not.

digikam –download-from %m
digikam –detect-camera

For the automatic creation of date-based folder names, see the [settings] tab on the far right hand side of the camera import window.
http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/using-kapp-camera.html

It’s still not as seamless as using Zoombrowser as user intervention is still required, but it’s much smoother with only a single button push now.


thank you ermannobonifazi for pointing me in the right direction (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3702181)