camera is generating allready existing image names

[Richard Miles-814]

I am finding that when I download pictures from my Canon PowerShot A85 camera that the image names match already existing image names in my album. This means I must tell digikam to rename the image in order to save the image. This is becoming very tedious as I have to do this for each new image downloaded. Is there a way to configure digikam to automatically do this? I know there is an overwrite all option but that would remove the already stored album photos which of course I want to keep.

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Richard Miles
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[Duncan Hill-5]

Richard E Miles wrote:
> I am finding that when I download pictures from my Canon PowerShot
> A85
> camera that the image names match already existing image names in my
> album. This means I must tell digikam to rename the image in order to
> save the image. This is becoming very tedious as I have to do this for
> each new image downloaded. Is there a way to configure digikam to
> automatically do this? I know there is an overwrite all option but that
> would remove the already stored album photos which of course I want to keep.
>

The other question is why is your A85 misbehaving like that?  The Canon
A series normally generates a unique, incrementing name for each picture.

Have you reset the camera recently?

Have you tried doing downloads in to date-based albums?
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[Richard Miles-814]

On Sun, 28 May 2006 06:30:26 +0100
Duncan Hill <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Richard E Miles wrote:
> > I am finding that when I download pictures from my Canon PowerShot
> > A85
> > camera that the image names match already existing image names in my
> > album. This means I must tell digikam to rename the image in order to
> > save the image. This is becoming very tedious as I have to do this for
> > each new image downloaded. Is there a way to configure digikam to
> > automatically do this? I know there is an overwrite all option but that
> > would remove the already stored album photos which of course I want to keep.
> >
>
> The other question is why is your A85 misbehaving like that?  The Canon
> A series normally generates a unique, incrementing name for each picture.
>
> Have you reset the camera recently?
>
> Have you tried doing downloads in to date-based albums?
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I think I have found how to fix the problem. Under the advanced settings of the camera dialog there is a option to have digikam rename the images. I havn't tried to download any pictures yet but I think this will work.

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