Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: shotwell
I store scanned 35mm film images as IMG001.jpg, IMG002.jpg etc, where
the digits indicate the negative's number. Each film has its own
directory (e.g 1960-1, 1960-2 etc.
I'm collecting together a presentation for a camera club by tagging the
images I want, and then exporting them, but some of these have identical
filenames, for example, I have at least two files called IMG008.jpg. The
outcome is that only one of the files is exported, and there is no
warning nor offer of systematic renaming of duplicate files on export.
This is not just going to affect me (because of my method of naming
scanned negatives), but will also affect those who choose to have their
digital cameras start the numbering of their images at 1 again after all
the images for a session have been removed from the camera.
This is going to make the preparation of this presentation (in three
days time!) very tiresome, because I can't rely on having all the images
I've tagged exported to the directory I'm using for the presentation
manager.
In the short term I need a workaround short of renaming all my files. I
think I'll have to spot the missing files by comparison of the export
directory with the display of all the files tagged "CamClub", and to tag
these CamClub2, export these to a separate export2 directory, and so on
with Camclub3 and export 3 until the files are done. I can then modify
the exported filenames from export2, export3 etc, before collecting all
the files into one directory.
** Affects: shotwell (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Export doesn't deal with different files with same filename
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/648424
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