Be able to change the file name format.

[bzamecnik]

By default phockup renames the files completely using a date-based pattern. We can just keep the original name, but nothing in between. It might be useful to keep the original part of the file name and add that date prefix. Also it might be useful to change the date format, eg. to avoid the long "timestamp".

[ivandokov]

Changing the date format is possible at the moment https://github.com/ivandokov/phockup#date-format but I agree that keeping the original name and prefixing it with the date is a good option. Unfortunately I am occupied at the moment and can't develop it right away but I will once I get some free time, unless someone else wants to take this feature and submit a PR. I'd appreciate it!

[HugoQuadradoSmarkio]

Hello!
I know I can change the date/time for folders, but how can I change it to the filename of the images?

Thanks.

[anlag]

Another useful thing to optionally have in the filename, at least for me, is the name of the camera as obtained from the EXIF data. I have a lot of photos from both smartphones and DSLRs; I don't mind them mixing in the same folder structure but it would be nice to have an option to show in the filename which is from where.

[inkhey]

Hello ! I just tested this nice script and i'm thinking about something which stay unclear to me. It's related to the file format and may be important to take into account if the software allow changing the file name format, but it's not directly related to the fact we cannot change it easily now.

One important things to take into account with the naming is avoiding naming conflict. I do try and phockup is intelligent enough to not rewrite existing file. I imagine it is just checking filename which is enough (another solution could be doing some rsync-like stuff but i don't think it's really important, case where file where broken are rare). The problem i do see it, that is far i understood the naming is based on second timing. I'm not really sure to be right, but what should happening in case of burst mode with many photos with similar date ? Is this case already taken into account with current file_name format ? I will probably give a try to verify but i prefer to ask first.

[ivandokov]

The cameras which allow burst images are using subseconds to their timestamps and they produce unique names.

Also the software is checking the checksum of files with same output name to avoid overwriting of files.

[anttitelio]

So what is the format of the file names, actually? In the documentation I can find only the format of the directories, but not the files.

[akyag]

There should be an option to specify the name format because I had an organized folder sorted previously by phockup, I ran the software again and now my collection has duplicate images all over since the subseconds being used in the filename wasn't a thing before. So for ex now I have
20181202-173927.jpg
20181202-173927276.jpg
this type of duplication all over the place and don't know what to do about it other than manually checking every folder.

[DimShpInt]

Hello, please tell me if the photo was taken in, for example, the time zone +3 in the file name, the shooting time will become 3 hours longer. How can this be fixed?
20160502-17483950.jpg
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