Feedback wanted about Rapid Photo Downloader

[anarcat]

Hi!

Obviously, this is late feedback, but since the conversation is still opened here I figured I would add my grain of salt.

I recently switched from my home-grown import script (based on exiftool and fim) to rapid-photo-downloader and I am quite happy with the results. I tried the old version that was in debian stable (0.4) and this was already an improvement over my haphazard process. The newer version (0.9.7) is of course a lot better, although there are still some rough edges for me.

• 0.4 allowed me to “move” the photos out of the memory card instead of copying them. i’d like to have that feature back, but i understand it’s tricky business. full discussion in:

removing photos

Maybe my memory is failing me, but I seem to recall that it was possible to move photos out of the device when downloading them. I don’t see that feature anymore… I see there is a “Effacer les transfers terminés” option (in french, rough translation: “Remove completed transfers”), but that only hides the pictures that were already transfered - it doesn’t remove them from the card. How do I automatically remove transfered images? Or how do I make raphodo move images instead of copying them? Tha…

• my home-grown script would automatically add the photos into git-annex, which allows me to manage archival and backup of the photos. i was hoping i could write a simple plugin to do that, but there is no plugin interface and adding one seems like a really daunting prospect, as discussed here:

plugins or extensions?

Hi! Is there a way to extend the RPD processing in any way? I’d like to hook into the script to import images into Darktable and setup my own backup routines (specifically using Git-annex). I know Python well and i don’t mind writing plugins - i just wonder if that’s documented somewhere. I looked into the handbook and it seems geared more towards novice users… Thanks!

• i am having trouble automatically mounting memory cards when i plug them in. for RPD to recognize the card, I first need to start a file manager (i use Thunar for that) to mount the card. i would have hoped that RPD does that on its own, and i’m not sure why that’s not working. it could be because I use a weird desktop environment (xmonad), i’d need to test this in GNOME to see if it works there.

Otherwise I wanted to make sure you got a positive feedback here. It can be demanding to run a free software project – i know, i run several – so I wanted to say: thank you, and good job!