Hey Patrick
Thanks, these scripts are always useful. I have something different that
works for me here. I've scripted 1, 2, and 4. What I'm looking for is a way
to add photos to the darktable library from the cli, without opening
darktable
On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 9:42 PM Patrick Shanahan <p...@opensuse.org> wrote:
> * 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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