Bug 513985

Summary: Sorting and Renaming Photos
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Andy <zunar>
Component: Albums-ItemsSortAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: caulier.gilles, metzpinguin
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 9.0.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Microsoft Windows   
OS: Microsoft Windows   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: Date1
Date and Time

Description Andy 2025-12-30 20:12:54 UTC
Hi!

I have some ideas for editing photo names and date assignments.

Since my father passed away a few weeks ago, I'm now going through his many photos. So I'm currently scanning a huge number of photos, color films, negatives, and slides.

As far as I know, I want to insert the original date into the EXIF ​​data. Then the file will be renamed. ---> [date:"yyyyMMdd_hhmmss"] - Scan

1) Because the scans are often not in the correct order, it would be helpful if I could freely move and arrange the photos in the album.

2) After that, I want to select all the photos and insert the original date and time, with a 10-second interval for each subsequent photo. That works well!

3) I find entering the timestamp inconvenient. I have to scroll up and down through the years, months, and days in the calendar. It would be simpler to enter the date manually, like 30.12.2025. What I'm trying to say is, entering the month verbatim, like "December," is cumbersome. At least with the sheer number of photos I'm currently editing ;-)

Perhaps these are good ideas for future versions.
I'm currently using XnViewMP for this work.

I wish you all a happy new year and stay healthy!

Andy
Comment 1 Maik Qualmann 2025-12-30 20:23:11 UTC
1) Manual sorting via drag and drop is possible with digiKam. Set the sorting to Manual and by Date or Manual and by Name.

2) The Time Adjust tool in digiKam can write the date to the EXIF ​​data of images with a time interval.

3) digiKam can also do this, for example, in the Caption tab in the right sidebar.

Maik
Comment 2 Andy 2025-12-31 18:42:23 UTC
Created attachment 188118 [details]
Date1

1) Great! I didn't see it. I guess I was too tired. It's sometimes hard to find the right English keywords in the manual.

2) I'd already found and used that.

3) Can you show me a picture of what you mean? Attached is what I mean.

Regards
Andy
Comment 3 Maik Qualmann 2025-12-31 22:39:36 UTC
https://docs.digikam.org/en/right_sidebar/captions_view.html#date-and-time

The calendar does not need to be used; a date can be entered directly.

Maik
Comment 4 Andy 2026-01-01 09:32:39 UTC
Created attachment 188125 [details]
Date and Time

Hello!

I found the place to make the change.

But I prefer the "Adjust Time & Date…" menu entry in the Main Window. Here I can preview the new timestamp and enter an interval. This is better for the order of files in Windows Explorer and other programs.

As I said, it would be easier if the month were displayed as a number next to the red "1". But okay. Perhaps it has to be this way for countries with a different date format. I'll get used to it.

Now I've noticed something else. Is it possible to display the seconds for the modification time and the capture time below the preview images?

Regards
Andy
Comment 5 Andy 2026-01-01 09:58:39 UTC
I just noticed that I have to be very careful how I select the photos I want to change using CTRL.

If I select photo 2 first and then photo 1, they are added to the changes list in that order.

If I move the photos around in the changes list, the new times aren't automatically reassigned from top to bottom.

Regards 
Andy
Comment 6 Andy 2026-01-03 07:50:52 UTC
Hi!

I think something's wrong. https://files.kde.org/digikam/
The last Windows version is from December 25, 2025.

Andy
Comment 7 caulier.gilles 2026-01-03 08:21:51 UTC
Hi,

The VM is down. I currently rebuild all from scratch. It's not yet complete at all. It take more than time than expected.

I will restore the backup of the old VM today and continue later the new VM.

Best

Gilles Caulier
Comment 8 Andy 2026-01-03 22:55:13 UTC
@Gilles
Thanks!

@Maik
Thank you for the "seconds"

Andy
Comment 9 Maik Qualmann 2026-01-04 19:07:49 UTC
Note that the "seconds" will disappear by default in the next version. However, you can now edit the date format string yourself in the setup and simply append ":ss".

Maik
Comment 10 Andy 2026-01-09 19:50:13 UTC
Hi!

I'd like to rename the files. Sometimes two photos have the same time stamp. Is there a way to append a number to both files in this case?

[date:"yyyyMMdd_hhmmss"] - Andy {unique}
= 20260109_080101 - Andy (1)
= 20260109_080101 - Andy (2)

Andy