[Krename-users] Patch for pictures taken in continuous mode

[Nicolas L. <nla...@bu...>]

Hello,

First of all, thank you very much for krename, it is so great and useful !

I have been using krename for a while now mostly to rename pictures by
date/time.
Some times ago I noticed that when using the continuous mode of my camera
some pictures where deleted when renaming.
I figure out that some pictures where taken at the same time (same second)
and thus get the same destination name and one of them will be overwritten
during the renaming process.

I was tired of renaming the continuous pictures manually and decided to get
the krename source and work on it.
I must say that it didn't take me a long time to find where I had to change
things, thanks to your readable, self explaining and commented enough code.

So I come out with this small patch that add a '_' at the end of the
filename (before the extension) when two files have the same destination
name:

Having those 3 pictures taken at the same time:
1.jpg
2.jpg
3.jpg

Before I had only one file left because they were renamed the same way:
1.jpg  ->  2007-07-07 12-08-21.jpg
2.jpg  ->  2007-07-07 12-08-21.jpg
3.jpg  ->  2007-07-07 12-08-21.jpg  (the only one left)

Now I still have my three files because they don't have the exact same name:
1.jpg  ->  2007-07-07 12-08-21.jpg
2.jpg  ->  2007-07-07 12-08-21_.jpg
3.jpg  ->  2007-07-07 12-08-21__.jpg

Ok, it is not so pretty, the best thing will be to add a second to the
pictures (or to add ms to the Exif standard), but I still have my pictures
and that's what I care about.

I know you are really busy porting the application to Qt4 but I hope you
will include this patch in the next release or resolve the problem in an
other way.

I am not on the mailing list so please reply to this address.
Thanks again you're doing a great job !

Nicolas