Re: Transferring pictures from a digital camera (it was Re: Best software under Gnome)

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 01/01/09 19:59, Daniel Cliff wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Milan SKOCIC <milan.skocic@gmail.com> wrote:
> > "F-Spot is meant to be an easy-to-use photo management
> > application.  It allows for importing of your existing
> > photo collections, tagging photos with identifiers,
> > as well as doing simple edits of photos".
> >
> > Personally I use it and I'm satisfied.
> >
> > Milan.
>
> I just tried it out and it's pretty nice, but I would like something
> more specialized to transfer the pictures from the camera to a local
> folder. Does anyone know if there is something like that?
> Specifically, I would like to:
> _ delete the pictures in the camera after successful file transfer (I
> guess most people normally do that in order to take new pictures,
> right?),

mv?  cut-n-paste?

> _ rename the files according to some pattern (eg 20090101_001.jpg,
> 20090101_002.jpg etc)

jhead -n%Y%m%d-%H%M%S *.jpg

> _ organize the pictures in folders conveniently (f-spot creates
> folders based on the date the picture was taken, and sometimes it's
> more convenient to have a folder like "New Year's Eve party").

I'd use bash or maybe nautilus.

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