Camera Download Apps

CrashedAgain · 05-19-2009, 10:53 PM

I am trying to migrate away from KDE because I am really dissappointed with kde4....so I'm looking for an alternative to digikam.

What other Camera download application will download the pictures from the camera into automatically created sub-folders based on the the picture was taken.

j-ray · 05-20-2009, 09:10 AM

http://www.gphoto.org/

based on the date the picture was taken?

pwc101 · 05-20-2009, 09:25 AM

I've used fspot before, and it seemed OK. Not quite as feature-rich as digiKam, but suitable nevertheless.

CrashedAgain · 05-20-2009, 10:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by j-ray

http://www.gphoto.org/

based on the date the picture was taken?

Yes...here is a snip of my "Camera Photos" folder...

Code:

/media/sda7/DOCUMENTS/CAMERA\ PHOTOS/
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009-01-02
2009-01-07
2009-01-11
2009-01-17
2009-01-18
2009-01-24
2009-02-09
2009-02-10
2009-02-11
2009-02-12
2009-02-13
2009-02-21
2009-02-25
2009-03-03
2009-03-04
2009-03-07
2009-03-11
2009-05-17
2009-05-18
Misc
crashedagain@acer:~$

Digikam has a "create date-based subfolders" download option that will do this.

This is all I do in the way of "photo organizing"...it takes far too much time to add tags and search criteria, etc. With the date based subfolders all I have to do is remember (more or less) the date the picture I want was taken and I can find it quickly.

So the ability to d/l in this way is important.

I have tried f-spot and g-thumb. As far as I can tell, they do not have this capability.