Re: filename clashes du to multiple cameras: an issue

[Bengt Thuree <bengt thuree com>]

On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 23:56 +0200, Emanuele Olivetti wrote:
> Hi,
> I've got two canon cameras that use the same syntax for pictures' filenames.
> Both use: "IMG_????.JPG"
> Luckily until now there is no clash in f-spot but soon names will overlap.
> 
> Which is the right way to hadle this issue? Should I rename all files of
> a given camera in a different way before importing?
> 
> How can I do this with the pictures already in f-spot without breaking
> consistency of photos.db? (I mean something similar to massive renaming)
> 
> Camera 1 has some thousand pictures in f-spot and the oldest name is
> something like IMG_1000.JPG ; camera 2 has just few hundreds pictures
> in f-spot, from IMG_0001.JPG on.
> 

Hi

No worries, F-Spot will rename one of the photos if two photos have the
same name.
So, you will have IMG_1000, and IMG_1000-1

/Bengt