Posted by
Dougie Nisbet on
May 11, 2021; 8:29am
URL: http://digikam.185.s1.nabble.com/digiKam-users-Renaming-images-in-another-root-album-tp4716351p4716496.html
This was my first thought too but I got the impression that the OP had
their mind set on renaming using DK itself.
One of the main reasons I moved from Shotwell to DK is that DK is so
robust in allowing external renaming of files. I have a shell script
that extracts tags and timestamps and creates filenames based on that.
It's so useful and versatile to be able to search for a key piece of
information in a filename. Works across platforms. Then whenever I
restart DK it automatically detects the filename changes and updates
itself. It's a real dealbreaker for me.
Dougie
On 10/05/2021 16:17, Phil wrote:
> 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"
>>