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Bug 408541 - Filenames during import
Filenames during import
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 169646
Product: f-spot
Classification: Other
Component: Import
0.2.2
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: F-spot maintainers
F-spot maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-02-16 10:59 UTC by Anders B
Modified: 2007-02-16 15:20 UTC
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Description Anders B 2007-02-16 10:59:52 UTC 
Would it be possible to add to preferences a dropdown-box or similar so that a user can choose to 1) preserve case, 2) switch to lower case or 3) switch to upper case for imported photo filenames.

I have a big memory-card in my digi camera and usually don't delete photos from it after importing. If I use a memory-card reader filenames are in upper case but if I connect the camera via USB-cable, F-Spot imports them in lower case.

End result is that I have to manually delete 300-500 duplicate photos or rename  that have already been imported in "other case". 

Even a GConf setting could suffice, but I would be supprised if no one else have faced a simmilar issue.

Other information:
Comment 1 Stephane Delcroix 2007-02-16 11:17:44 UTC 
forcing the case will not solve the duplication. When Importing from a digital camera, f-spot always copy the files, and if a picture already have that name, a name-1.jpg file will be created.
Comment 2 Anders B 2007-02-16 15:01:16 UTC 
Would there be any chance that f-spot could store as metadata an md5 sum or something similar (date & time created) of a photo and compare during import to avoid duplicates?

I know this involves much more work.

... As is I always open a terminal and do a manual nuke of duplicates, which kind of defeats the easy-to-use concept.
Comment 3 Thomas Van Machelen 2007-02-16 15:20:34 UTC 
If your issue is about having duplicate files, than this has already been reported before.  Some work has been done on it in the past, but the patch never really matured enough to make it in to cvs/svn.

Maybe it's a good time to pick it up again and see where it brings us this time.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 169646 ***