http://digikam.185.s1.nabble.com/digiKam-users-Renaming-images-in-another-root-album-tp4716351p4716352.html
Did you try setting up a new temporary database and import the pictures at the other location into this new database? After processing the images you can go back to your original database and delete the temporary one.
> Am 05.05.2021 um 20:56 schrieb
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> DK 7.2.0 appimage.
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> I need to name/rename images in an other location.
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> All my photos hang from: /other/photos
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> My files are img_1234.cr2 and rename my regular images with:
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> text-[date:"yyyyMMdd"]-[file]{range:5,8} which gives me: text-20210505-1234.cr2.
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> It works extremely well when my images are in the /other/photos. But...
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> I have a bunch (a few hundreds) of temporary photos in
> "/home/myself/temp/photos", that I want to rename using DK. Is there
> a way of doing it without polluting my database? or some other
> software that gives access to the metadata?
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> Thanks
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> The photos in "/home/myself/temp/photos" are temporary and will never
> be in my "repository"
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