SUMMARY Advanced Renaming is a powerful tool that allows the use of powerful regex, modifiers, and options. It can be used to perform complex operations and because of this, it can use very long or complex renaming rules. If you have created a complex naming rule, or multiple rules, as part of your workflow, it is important that you can save these rules and access them when you need to use them. A way to permanently save one or more rules or rule "templates" to be recalled at any time when performing an advanced renaming operation would be very useful.
In the multiple file renaming mode, a history is created (combo box). That is not enough? Maik
(In reply to Maik Qualmann from comment #1) > In the multiple file renaming mode, a history is created (combo box). That > is not enough? > > Maik While I don't know the exact behavior of the history, I have some concerns with using it. First, input history is generally not permanent. Whether it gets overwritten over time or gets lost after an update/reinstall/etc, I would prefer that my renaming rules were saved in a more deliberate and safe location so that I know that as long my config folder and database are backed up, I won't have to rewrite my rules or find that random file I manually backed them up to. I don't know where the history is stored or how the application treats that location in terms of importance (for example, is it stored in the .cache directory or the safer .config directory?). I also don't know if the history with my workflow rules will be overwritten if I use the renaming tool more than "X" times with different one-off renaming rules. Is there a history limit??? This brings me to my second concern. If the history limit is large or non-existent, my workflow rules will be difficult to find in the large history unless I only ever use my main workflow rules.
The Advanced rename last used patterns are stored in the digikamrc INI config file stored in your .config/ from your home directory. See the place of settings files stored by operating system : https://docs.digikam.org/en/getting_started/installation.html#configuration-files Gilles Caulier
Git commit ab20c4e9aae82c4f0e60fd736997bc631f984820 by Gilles Caulier. Committed on 20/12/2025 at 12:18. Pushed by cgilles into branch 'master'. add note in the online documentation about the saved last used patterns for the advanced rename dialog. FIXED-IN: 8.9.0 M +4 -0 main_window/image_view.rst https://invent.kde.org/documentation/digikam-doc/-/commit/ab20c4e9aae82c4f0e60fd736997bc631f984820