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Luca Ferrari

renaming files with out of digikam script

Hello all,
I'm using 4.14 and I'd like to know if I can change image names with a
bulk script, assuming not all the tags and metadata have been stored
within th eimage itself. Is it a safe operation to use, say, a zsh
script to do a bulk renaming?
Or, on the other hand, is there a bulk renaming utility included in
digikam I should read about?

Thanks,
Luca
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Gilles Caulier-4

Re: renaming files with out of digikam script

2015-12-21 17:37 GMT+01:00 Luca Ferrari <[hidden email]>:

Hello all,
I'm using 4.14 and I'd like to know if I can change image names with a
bulk script, assuming not all the tags and metadata have been stored
within th eimage itself.

If you use XMP sidecar, this will be safe for the image file and the database restoration after to scan and detect file renamed.

Is it a safe operation to use, say, a zsh
script to do a bulk renaming?
Or, on the other hand, is there a bulk renaming utility included in
digikam I should read about?

DigiKam has an advanced rename tool. Press F2 in album view.

Gilles Caulier

Thanks,
Luca
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Gilles Caulier-4

Re: renaming files with out of digikam script

I forget to said that DK 5.0.0 will include a new tool in Batch Queue Manager to run external script in a queue workflow. This will included in next 5.0.0-beta3

Gilles Caulier

2015-12-21 17:50 GMT+01:00 Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]>:

2015-12-21 17:37 GMT+01:00 Luca Ferrari <[hidden email]>:
Hello all,
I'm using 4.14 and I'd like to know if I can change image names with a
bulk script, assuming not all the tags and metadata have been stored
within th eimage itself.

If you use XMP sidecar, this will be safe for the image file and the database restoration after to scan and detect file renamed.

Is it a safe operation to use, say, a zsh
script to do a bulk renaming?
Or, on the other hand, is there a bulk renaming utility included in
digikam I should read about?

DigiKam has an advanced rename tool. Press F2 in album view.

Gilles Caulier

Thanks,
Luca
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jdd@dodin.org

Re: renaming files with out of digikam script

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Le 21/12/2015 17:37, Luca Ferrari a écrit :
> Hello all,
> I'm using 4.14 and I'd like to know if I can change image names with a
> bulk script, assuming not all the tags and metadata have been stored
> within th eimage itself. Is it a safe operation to use, say, a zsh
> script to do a bulk renaming?
> Or, on the other hand, is there a bulk renaming utility included in
> digikam I should read about?
>

I do this routinely without any problem, and digikam acknowledge the
change gracefully. I guess Digikam or the associated library uses inode
number, not file name

to see this, try it on one file

jdd
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