[digiKam-users] Rename Question

[Mick Sulley]

I noticed a strange thing on renaming the other day, I waited for DK v6 to be released to see if it was any different but the issue is still there.

My pics are taken in raw, auto rename with date/time on import into DK, then use Darktable to convert to .jpg

As example I have 6 pictures taken over a few hours, renamed on import to -

PIC20190215T153840.jpg
PIC20190215T155618.jpg
PIC20190215T155632.jpg
PIC20190215T204336.jpg
PIC20190215T211358.jpg
PIC20190215T211416.jpg

If I now select all of these and select 'Rename' it suggests the retaining the same name (as expected) for 4 of them, but for the other 2

PIC20190215T155618.jpg    >    PIC20190217T224113.jpg
PIC20190215T155632.jpg    >    PIC20190217T224115.jpg

So 2 days later. For the first of these the date/time matches metadata > EXIF > Image Information > Date and Time

For the second one it is one second before that, so no idea where it has got that from.

My rename rule is [date:"PICyyyyMMddThhmmss"]{unique}

Why are these 2 pics treated differently to the others?  I thought that the rule would use 'Date and Time Original' but looking at it, whilst the others look right some are a second out.

Can anyone enlighten me please?

Mick

[Maik Qualmann]

It is better to perform the rename after the import. Depending on the setting
in the digiKam Setup-> Camera-> Behavior-> Use metadata (slows down the
connection) or imported files (RAW) and if the images may be imported with a
gPhoto2 device, only the file date is used as the source.

Maik

Am Mittwoch, 20. Februar 2019, 19:39:05 CET schrieb Mick Sulley:

> I noticed a strange thing on renaming the other day, I waited for DK v6
> to be released to see if it was any different but the issue is still there.
>
> My pics are taken in raw, auto rename with date/time on import into DK,
> then use Darktable to convert to .jpg
>
> As example I have 6 pictures taken over a few hours, renamed on import to -
>
> PIC20190215T153840.jpg
> PIC20190215T155618.jpg
> PIC20190215T155632.jpg
> PIC20190215T204336.jpg
> PIC20190215T211358.jpg
> PIC20190215T211416.jpg
>
> If I now select all of these and select 'Rename' it suggests the
> retaining the same name (as expected) for 4 of them, but for the other 2
>
> PIC20190215T155618.jpg    >    PIC20190217T224113.jpg
> PIC20190215T155632.jpg    >    PIC20190217T224115.jpg
>
> So 2 days later. For the first of these the date/time matches metadata >
> EXIF > Image Information > Date and Time
>
> For the second one it is one second before that, so no idea where it has
> got that from.
>
> My rename rule is [date:"PICyyyyMMddThhmmss"]{unique}
>
> Why are these 2 pics treated differently to the others?  I thought that
> the rule would use 'Date and Time Original' but looking at it, whilst
> the others look right some are a second out.
>
> Can anyone enlighten me please?
>
> Mick