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[Jon <jon.babcock@xxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings.

I'm experimenting with rapid-photo-downloader (v. 0.1.1) on Ubuntu 9.10.

I'm a raw beginner so please summon your patience.

I'm trying out different file hierarchies under ~/Pictures before I 
employ rapid to copy (and simultaneously reorganize) a ten-year 
collection of about 38,000 digital photos.

For my trial runs, I've been using an SD card with 147 photos, both JPG 
and ORF, which I assume stands for Olympus Raw Format, since all of 
these photos come from my new Olympus e-p2 and for 54 of these photos I 
had RAW+JPEG turned on. Only 17 of the 93 jpegs download, and none of 
the orf files download. A path typical of the ones I'm now experimenting 
with is: ~/Pictures/2010/01/e-p2/200/JPG.

Any suggestions?

Another question:
The first sub-directory level under Pictures is the year, which now has 
only one directory, 2010, but when I apply rapid to my main photo 
collection will have all years from 1999 through 2010. Between trial 
runs, I've been simply recursively deleting this 'year' directory as 
well as the rapid-tmp-xxxxxx directory that is automatically generated 
at the same level as 'year'. But when I am ready to stop experimenting 
and actually apply rapid to my main collection, I want rapid to start 
with a completely "clean slate". What is a good way to insure that it does?

Thanks a million. I look forward to seeing rapid develop into the 
premium app for downloading photos on Linux. (f-spot changed my exif 
date-time original data on 17,000 photos and it took a non-programmer 
like me effort and time to figure out how to more or less restore the 
exif data to where I was by using exif date-time digitized data which 
fortunately it hadn't altered.)

Thanks again.

Jon