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Message #02362
[Bug 648424] Re: Export doesn't deal with different files with same filename
Thanks for that workaround Ian. It was helpful for me.
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Title:
Export doesn't deal with different files with same filename
Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
New
Status in Shotwell:
New
Status in shotwell package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
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.
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