Re: Renaming images in another root/album

Posted by Philip Tuckey-2 on May 10, 2021; 3:17pm
URL: http://digikam.185.s1.nabble.com/digiKam-users-Renaming-images-in-another-root-album-tp4716351p4716460.html

Exiftool (exiftool.org) is a general purpose and very flexible
command-line tool for doing this kind of thing. The difficulty is
figuring out the right options and syntax, if one is not familiar with
it or forgets every time. A lot of documentation and examples are
available online.

On 05/05/2021 20:54, [hidden email] wrote:

> DK 7.2.0 appimage.
>
> I need to name/rename images in an other location.
>
> All my photos hang from: /other/photos
>
> My files are img_1234.cr2 and rename my regular images with:
>
> text-[date:"yyyyMMdd"]-[file]{range:5,8} which gives me: text-20210505-1234.cr2.
>
> It works extremely well when my images are in the /other/photos. But...
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks
>
> The photos in "/home/myself/temp/photos" are temporary and will never
> be in my "repository"
>