* Dane Goodwin <danegood...@gmail.com> [05-26-19 15:14]:
> Hey all
>
> Darktable is a phenomenal project, and I couldn't be happier once my photos
> are loaded in the DB and I have some local copies for the road. However,
> getting my photos to that point is quite cumbersome. I have a NAS where I
> store all my photos, and the steps I follow to get my photos into darktable
> are
>
> 1) copy the photos from my memory card to my laptop
> 2) sort them by date taken, and upload the folders to my NAS
> 3) open darktable and import the new folders
> 4) close darktable and use darktable-generate-cache to create some
> thumbnails
> 5) open darktable and create local copies of the new photos that I want to
> work on
>
> Having a command to import images from a folder would let me automate this
> completely, so I could plug my memory card into my laptop, run a single
> command, let it run for however long it needs, and come back to photos that
> are sorted, saved, and ready to go. A command named darktable-import with
> an option to create local copies of the new images would be perfect for me.
> I couldn't find anything that does this, and wanted to open the discussion
> here. Is this something others might find useful?
you might find useful my rename strategy:
'lc;exiv2 -T ./*.{nef,jpg}'
'exiv2 mv \-k \-r %y%m%d_%H%M%S_:basename: \.\/*.{nef,jpg}'
lc lowercases the filenames
change file-date to exif date-time taken
then renamed to YYMMDD_HHMMSS
year/month/day/hour/minute/second
plus original filename
190526_153344_dsc_5940.nef
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