Hi!
Since I started using F-spot in 2004, the one thing that was always
missing for me was the ability to import into a folder structure (which
Shotwell already solves!) and to rename image files.
I have "forever" used a more or less homemade perl-script to move
pictures into my folder structure, and it has been working ok.
Especially with Shotwell's "Watch library directory for new files". But
now with both movies and raw-files, I've been struggling a bit to make
my perl script do what I want it to. The best would be to use Shotwell
directly.
The script is importing pictures using EXIF-data into a structure like
$year$month/$year-$month-$day-$counter.jpg - for instance for the first
picture taken today it will be "201110/2011-10-07-0001.jpg"
I find this incredibly more useful than P1234567.jpg or DSC_12367.jpg or
similar - altough I ofcourse understand that others have different
workflows.
I've been browsing the existing issues, and didn't find any similar
ones. I feel it's not quite the same as #1562 - I just want the rename
to happen at import-time, not whenever.
But of course it will have to happen when I import JPEG+RAW also, and
preferably also movies.
I'm thinking that maybe this may be done through the "Directory
Structure" field in the preferences. Just choose "Custom", and you
should be able to write pattern for files as well, like
"%Y%m/%Y-%m-%d-%counter.jpg" for my pattern for instance.
I will create an issue for this, but I just wanted to hear others
opinion about this, especially the developer's opinion. If this is
something people (and again, especially developers) think is a good
idea, is it possible to get it implementet by donating? If so, how much
would be needed-ish? 100$? 200$? 500$?
This is really what would make my workflow perfect. There are also
things I miss from F-Spot, but I think most of it will be implemented
eventually.
Thanks for your great effort!
Regards,
Stian
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