Re: photo management and camera download by date
On 2006-05-22 @ 19:09:53 (week 21) Richard Otte wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to download photos off of my digital camera in such a way
> that they are sorted into directories by date. So a photo taken on
> Feb 23,2006 would be put in a directory 2006/02/23/filename. The
> camera will often have photos taken on different dates, and I'd like
> the directories to be created and the photos to be organized into
> these directories automatically. Does anyone know of a program that
> will do this?
>
> I very briefly looked at digikam, but it looks as if it downloads all
> the photos into an album, and the photos are not downloaded according
> to date. It looks as if I could make a digikam album for each date,
> and then manually download photos to the different albums, but this
> takes a fair amount of work if there are lots of photos taken on
> different dates.
>
> Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks,
Hi Richard,
What I do is first copy the images to my system. Then I use a program
called exiv2 to automatically rename the files using the timestamp as
stored in their EXIF data. I suggest you do a 'wajig install exiv2' (or
more probably 'apt-get install exiv2') and a man exiv2 to find out if
this program meets your needs. It just might...
Grx HdV
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