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[Simon Naunton <snaunton@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have the same issue.

I wrote a bash script as a workaround (and convert videos to MP4, date
them and archive the original- we have a lot of AVIs from ~10 years
ago), posting here in case it is helpful to anyone.

https://github.com/snaunton/shotwell-export

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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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