On 2006-05-22 @ 19:09:53 (week 21) Richard Otte wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to download photos off of my digital camera in such a way > that they are sorted into directories by date. So a photo taken on > Feb 23,2006 would be put in a directory 2006/02/23/filename. The > camera will often have photos taken on different dates, and I'd like > the directories to be created and the photos to be organized into > these directories automatically. Does anyone know of a program that > will do this? > > I very briefly looked at digikam, but it looks as if it downloads all > the photos into an album, and the photos are not downloaded according > to date. It looks as if I could make a digikam album for each date, > and then manually download photos to the different albums, but this > takes a fair amount of work if there are lots of photos taken on > different dates. > > Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks,
Hi Richard, What I do is first copy the images to my system. Then I use a program called exiv2 to automatically rename the files using the timestamp as stored in their EXIF data. I suggest you do a 'wajig install exiv2' (or more probably 'apt-get install exiv2') and a man exiv2 to find out if this program meets your needs. It just might... Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
