http://darktable.org/redmine/issues/8415
as houz said in the comments above, i'm not sure who uses the gphoto
import. it's slower than cf/mass storage and occasionally crashes. there
were reports of deleted files, even though i couldn't ever confirm it.
-jo
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Francois Connetable <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> Pardon me for jumping in as a simple DT-user out there... I would like to
> ask for an improvment to the "import" feature of DT [the one that is
> currently disabled by default in git]... As I use DT for end to end
> management of my images, I'm not willing to use an external software to
> import images out of the camera, and then reimport folders in DT. I don't
> want either to use USB card reader as moving the CF out and back in my
> camera too often really present the risk of bending a pin in the camera (I
> know, CF are not trendy anymore but that's what I have on my Canon 7D).
> What I would like to do is to be able to organize auto-magically my folder
> structure so that it reflects the date when each pictures was taken. This
> is what I was doing so far when I was still a windows user running
> LightRoom.
> The structure should look like:
> <YEAR>/<MONTH>/<DAY>/picture_name.cr2
>
> I tried to do this in darktable expressing the import path with the
> variables $(EXIF_YEAR)/$(EXIF_MONTH)/... much like I do for export. But it
> looks like Darktable is valuing the data *once* using the current system
> time, and does import all images in the same place. If darktable could
> evaluate the import path image by image, using the EXIF, that would really
> help make the import feature shooter friendly :-)
>
> I hope this request make sense, and I take the opportunity of that mail to
> *thank* the whole dev team for that excellent tool, getting even better
> commit after commit. I have now fully migrated from windows/LR to
> Linux/darktable and wouldn't consider going back... Thanks to darktable.
>
> Cheers,
> -Francois Connetable
>
>
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