On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 20:31 +0000, Jim Nelson wrote: > I think there's any number of ways we can go about doing this. > Michael's ideas are great, but they involve a broader idea of exporting > photos -- being able to customize names and ordering and numbering, > almost like generating a report. That's a scheme far larger than this > ticket. > > The problem here is when you export two photos with the same filename, > the second one clobbers the first. That's obviously not right. What if > we did something super-simple: When going to export the file, if the > filename exists, append an underscore and a numeral and see if that file > exists. If so, keep appending numbers until one is found. > > With this scheme you would get files like this: > > IMG_0123.JPG > IMG_0123_1.JPG > > Not as powerful as Michael's idea, but it will work, and preserves the > original filename (which is sometimes human-readable). > > As it turns out, we have code in Shotwell that does exactly this (we use > it for import). In file_util.vala is a function generate_unique_file(). > The function returns a File object with a unique name (using the > original if possible).
Thanks, Jim. Suffixing a serial number in the event of a duplicate filename would certainly have solved my initial problem in a way I could live with. > > This, I think, is the easiest way to go to solve this ticket. Michael, > I think your ideas are interesting, as always. If you'd like to propose > a new feature, I encourage you to file a ticket fleshing this out on our > Trac server: http://trac.yorba.org. As a recent convert to Linux from Windows, I find the idea of being able to have a direct effect on the development of a product is very strange and not a little frightening! I'll certainly have a look down this avenue. Michael -- Export doesn't deal with different files with same filename https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/648424 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Registry Administrators, which is the registrant for Shotwell. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~registry Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~registry More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
