Display a warning message window when the user selects an invalid download destination.
Highlight Timeline cell when the mouse is hovering over it.
Fix bug #121: No feedback provided when invalid destination chosen in download panel.
Fix bug #122: Application crashes on start on openSUSE Tumbleweed. Thanks to Bozhin Karaivanov for the fix.
Catch GLib errors like g-io-error-quark when checking the results of mount operations.
Update Albanian, Dutch, Hungarian, Norwegian Bokmål, Russian and Spanish translations.
Remove install.py script, built-in updater and new version check.
Python 3.10 or newer is now required.
New Python packet requirement: packaging.
Fix bug #85: Exception while selecting generation scheme from download subfolder menu with more than five custom presets.
Fix bug #50: Confirm before removing all presets for custom renaming or subfolder generation.
Fix bug #49: Enable deletion of individual custom renaming and subfolder generation preset.
Re-enabled Ctrl-Q shortcut key for quiting when running under WSL.
Limit the default number cores used to generate thumbnails to 8 (or the number of physical CPU cores if lower). Previously the limit was the number of physical CPU cores, which is nonsensical on high core count systems.
Fix bug #110: ExifTool not called during rename process.
Fix bug #112: QWIDGETSIZE_MAX import error.
Conform version indentifier in setup.py to PEP 440 which is enforced with setuptools >= 66.0.0. Thanks to stratakis for the fix.
Eliminate use of depreciated pkg_resources.
Conform to changes in package python-gphoto2 2.5.0.
Update Albanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, and Spanish translations.
Fix bug #91: Avoid infinite loop when detecting setuptools install status in install.py script.
Update Dutch, Italian and Turkish translations. Thanks to Albano Battistella for the update to Italian.
Enhance install.py script to not install unnecessary H.265 dependencies now that pyheif includes them itself.
Fix implementation of bug fix #59: Handle cameras that nest dual card slots in subfolders like the Fujifilm X-T3.
Fix visual bug where right side user interface panels were not properly framed when first shown.
Fix bug #54: Use exiv2 to read CR3 metadata when available. Please note: exiv2 must be built with CR3 support, which is currently not the default. To determine if your Linux distribution has enabled CR3 support, with Rapid Photo Downloader 0.9.32 or newer, run from the command line:
rapid-photo-downloader --detailed-versionFix bug #69: Exception when prompting for survey when locale is not English.
Fix bug #68: Devices part of user interface does not resize when a device is removed.
Fix bug when rendering device download progress bar when multiple devices are used under Python 3.10.
Update Dutch and Spanish translations.
Fix bug #59: Handle cameras that nest dual card slots in subfolders like the Fujifilm X-T3.
Fix bug #67: Crash when determining user interface size.
Update Albanian and Hungarian translations.
Fix bug #53: Adapt to small screens. Rapid Photo Downloader can now be resized to fit to tiny screens. Part of the fix involves changes in the ways the download sources (Devices and This Computer) and the Timeline are placed in the left-side of the user interface. When a scroll bar is necessary to fit in these interface elements, a single scroll bar will now extend from the Devices to the Timeline. When you scroll down to view the entirety of the Timeline, if the Timeline is big enough the download sources will scroll up out of sight.
Change the button to synchronize scrolling between the Timeline and thumbnails to a double arrow. It now changes color to reflect its state. The button’s behavior is described in the documentation.
Make the Timeline remember its position when the time elapsed between consecutive shots is changed using the slider.
Make the user interface look cleaner and more consistent, especially regarding scrollbars and frames.
Enforce the use of the Qt 5 Fusion theme. Some Linux distribution Qt 5 themes can make the program’s user interface look bad because of differing assumptions about design elements like scroll bars and frames. If you want to use your system’s theme, use the command line option --force-system-theme.
Fix bug where various user interface elements would effectively be invisible when the system theme is dark, also known as “dark mode”. Please note dark mode will likely work in the program only if the PyQt5 package provided by your Linux distribution is being used.
Fix bugs #61, #58, and #1958892: setuptools >= 60.0 failing. Some versions of setuptools >= 60.0 can fail on many if not all Linux distributions. The install.py script now uninstalls versions of pip, setuptools and wheel that were installed with pip if the versions provided by the Linux distribution are new enough. If the versions provided are too old to be fully functional, pip and wheel are updated, and setuptools is upgraded to a version < 60.0.
Fix bug #64: Warning dialog fails to appear when iOS device utility applications are missing, causing a crash when an iOS device is inserted.
Fix bug #56: Compress bug report tars using gzip, facilitating upload to GitHub issues. GitHub does not accept .tar files. It does accept .tar.gz files.
Fix bug #43: Add preference to handle time zone and daylight savings changes. See the program documentation for details about what this change is and why it is needed.
Fix bug #47: Thumbnail generation overwrites Job Code applied to files before thumbnails are generated.
Fix bug #55: Updated sequence numbers not used when changed in user interface between file downloads.
Add preference option to automatically mount devices not already automatically mounted. This new option is on by default. The program already did this on KDE, but it could not be turned off. It can now be turned off. Regardless of the Linux desktop used, leaving it on is helpful for when the operating system does not automatically mount devices like memory cards itself. A desktop like KDE can choose to not automatically mount devices, for instance. Meanwhile, sometimes Linux desktop code contains bugs that results in devices failing to mount even when they were supposed to.
Fix bug to properly size thumbnails and hamburger menu on high DPI screens with recent releases of Gnome and other desktops that use xsettings.
Correctly check latest available PyQt5 package version on Fedora and CentOS.
Drop support for CentOS 7.5.
Remove dependency on fuse in install.py script due to emerging introduction of the fuse3 package. In almost all circumstances, the ifuse package should correctly specify the correct version of fuse to depend on, making the explicit declaration of fuse as a dependency in the install.py script wrong.
Fix bug to correctly display the number of files available for download after some files have been manually marked as already downloaded.
Update Albanian, Catalan, Dutch, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish translations.
Fix bug #44: Exception at startup when XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP is not set or set to unexpected value.
Fix bug #45: Make toggle switch behave consistently with other UI toolkits.
Fix bug #1955755: Exception occurred when probing device with malformed device path.
Update Turkish translation.
Purge calls to unmaintained Python package rawkit, which was an optional dependency.
Fix bug to always display the correct value for showing system directories when right-clicking on Photo and Video destinations, as well as This Computer.
When running under WSL 2, account for default value %USERPROFILE% when probing registry to determine Pictures and Videos user folder locations.
Add support for CentOS Stream 8 and CentOS 8 to install.py script. Thanks to Neal Gompa for identifying the cause of a problem when querying dnf under CentOS Stream 8 and providing the fix for it.
Update Czech, Dutch, French, Hungarian, Polish, Russian and Spanish translations.
Correct Albanian language attribution in About dialog box.
Read in much larger chunk of RAF files on cameras to read metadata. This slows performance, but is necessary on newer RAF files, which have larger embedded JPEGs that are placed before the metadata in the file.
Enable running under WSLg and WSL2 on Windows 11. Not all features are supported. See the program documentation.
By default only non-system directories are now shown in the directory listings for Photo and Video destinations, as well as This Computer. Right- click in the directory listings to enable showing all system directories.
The install.py script now updates the mime info cache, meaning the program should now appear as an option to handle photographic media in file managers when installed using this script.
Fix bug #1946407: another compatibility fix for Python 3.10 that 0.9.27b1 and 0.9.27a3 did not fully resolve.
Don’t crash when showing photo or video in file manager after right-clicking on thumbnail and no file is selected.
Update Albanian, Dutch and Swedish translations.
Use Python module Show-in-File-Manager to display files in the operating system’s file manager. Linux distribution packagers: this is a required module.
New Python module requirement for Python versions earlier than 3.8: importlib_metadata.
All selected files will now be opened in the file manager when right- clicking on a photo or video in the main window and “Open in File Browser” is activated. Previously only the file being right-clicked on would be opened.
Fix bug #1946407: another compatibility fix for Python 3.10 that 0.9.27a3 did not fully resolve.
Fix bug #33 SystemError: PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN macro must be defined for ‘#’ formats on Python 3.10. The solution is to install PyQt 5.15.6 or newer when using Python 3.10, which the install.py script now does.
Fix bug where downloading from a camera that was already in use would fail because generating an error message would cause an exception.
Disable viewing files still on a camera in the operating system’s file manager when on KDE.
Fix bug #1946407: Work around apparent float to int conversion when calling Qt from Python 3.10 on Fedora 35 beta.
Fix bug #33: Files with unique identifier added via error handling are not marked as downloaded.
Add folder ‘Screenshots’ to list of ignored paths. Remove this folder from the list of ignored paths in the program Preferences dialog if you do wish to download from a path that contains this folder.
Fix bug #1924933: Exception when scanning device with problematic connection.
Fix bug #1909904: python3-libunity package dumps core on Fedora. The install.py script will now uninstall python3-libunity if it is found on the system, as using it causes a calling program like Rapid Photo Downloader to crash.
Include Python package setuptools in README.md listing of required of runtime packages. It has been required for some time, but the README did not specify it.
The install.py script will no longer install pyheif on Raspberry Pi OS because user feedback indicates pyheif fails to build on that OS. If pyheif does in fact build on your install of Raspberry Pi OS, you can install it using Python’s pip.
Fix bug #30: iPhone7 serial number format not recognized.
Fix bug #1938341: Albanian translations not compiled.
Change bug report destination URL from https://bugs.launchpad.net/rapid to https://bugs.rapidphotodownloader.com.
iOS devices are now accessed using a software library written specifically to communicate with iOS devices, libimobiledevice. Previously, gPhoto2 was used, but gPhoto2 is unreliable with iOS because it appears Apple does not follow the PTP standard. Please note that on some systems, it can take some minutes for the iOS device to appear after it has been plugged in.
Distribution package maintainers should modify rapid-photo-downloader packages to include the following package dependencies:
Debian / Ubuntu, Fedora:
openSUSE:
Python 3.6 is now the minimum Python version.
Update install.py script to correctly enable Power Tools repository on CentOS 8, and the Qt5 wayland package on Fedora and CentOS 8.
Update Albanian and Polish translations.
Fix bug #1909252: crash against undefined unity launcher entry. Thanks to Guy Delamarter for the patch.
Ensure in-program upgrade feature continues to function on systems with Python 3.5.
Move translators credits into separate button in the About dialog window, and associate recent translators with their language.
Update Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, French, Japanese, Norwegian Bokmål, Russian, Serbian, Spanish and Turkish translations. Thank you to new translator Rubens Stuginski Jr for the work done on the Brazilian Portuguese translation.
When a new Job Code is entered before a download and no files are selected, the Job Code is automatically saved. When entering a Job Code, “Remember this Choice” is now labelled as “Remember this Job Code”.
Fix bug #1889770: Fails to run - Could not load the Qt platform plugin “xcb”.
Fix bug #1906272: Exception while displaying tooltip for thumbnail of file downloaded from a removed device.
Fix bug #1891659: Exception when encountering invalid block device.
Fix bug #1881255: Unhandled exception when system file manager entry is malformed. The AppImages for RawTherapee and ART can have an unfortunate bug in which they wrongly sets themselves to be the path to the desktop’s default file manger. Rapid Photo Downloader no longer crashes when trying to work with that incorrect setting.
Bump up minimum Python version supported to Python 3.5.
Don’t install support library libunity on Fedora. Libunity has a serious bug on Fedora 33. Libunity provides emblems and progress bars on launchers on desktops like KDE and Ubuntu’s flavor of Gnome.
Fedora 32 is now the minimum supported version of Fedora. Please note Fedora 33 is not recommended for now, because of an issue with Python 3.9 and Python threads seen when running Rapid Photo Downloader in Fedora 33. In contrast to Fedora 33, Ubuntu 21.04 with Python 3.9 works as expected.
When installing on Debian using the install.py script, ignore any version number information (or lack thereof) in /etc/os-release.
When using the install.py script, don’t install PyQt5 and python3-gphoto2 from PyPi when the Linux distribution’s package is relatively recent. Also: don’t default to installing the PyPi Python tools pip, setuptools, and wheel using pip when the system packages are relatively recent, and don’t install unsupported versions these same packages on Python 3.5.
Bump up minimum version of python package easygui to 0.98.1.
Bump up minimum version of python-dateutil to allow recent versions of arrow to function. When using the install.py script, don’t install unsupported versions of arrow or pymediainfo on Python 3.5.
When using the install.py script, don’t install the unmaintained python package rawkit on systems that do not contain libraw 0.16 or 0.17.
Update Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Russian, Serbian, and Spanish translations. Add partially translated Albanian translation.
Added support for Ubuntu Kylin and Pop!_OS 20.04.
Provide the option of automatically creating a tar file of program configuration file and log files when submitting a bug report.
Fixed bug #1875268: Overly long download source name limitlessly expands window width.
Fixed bug #1876344: Unable to generate thumbnails or download from Fujifilm X-H1.
All message box buttons should now be translated (or able to be translated).
Updated Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Serbian, Spanish and Turkish translations.
Fixed bug #1872188: sqlite3.OperationalError when generating thumbnails.
Fixed bug #1873057: Add ORI to list of supported image formats.
Fixed bug #1873233: RAW and JPG don’t synchronize when using stored number.
Fixed bug where HEIF/HEIC thumbnails on a camera were not being generated until they were downloaded.
When generating video thumbnails for phones and tablets, the entire video will now be downloaded and cached. Previously only a portion of the video was downloaded, in the hope that this portion could generate the thumbnail, but unfortunately it did not always render. This new behavior will slow down thumbnail generation, but does ensure the thumbnail will be rendered. If you object to this new behavior or know of a better approach, please share your thoughts in the discussion forum:
https://discuss.pixls.us/c/software/rapid-photo-downloader
Fixed bugs where camera insertion and removal was not being detected in some circumstances. In KDE, it was camera removal. In Gnome-like systems where auto mounting of cameras is disabled or not functional, it was insertion.
More robustly handle a camera being unexpectedly removed during scanning, thumbnailing, and copying files.
Fixed bug #1871649: Window corruption when application scaling enabled on certain desktop environments. The application now uses Qt and Gdk to query whether any monitor has scaling enabled. If no scaling is enabled on any monitor, then Rapid Photo Downloader will not enable automatic scaling.
New package dependency: Python 3 gobject introspection for Gdk 3.0
For openSUSE:
Fixed packaged detection in install.py script for openSUSE. Fixed bug when enabling RPM Fusion Free on Fedora.
Added an option to extract photo metadata (including thumbnails) using only ExifTool. Rapid Photo Downloader defaults to using Exiv2, relying on ExifTool only when Exiv2 does not support the file format being read. Exiv2 is fast, accurate, and almost always reliable, but it crashes when extracting metadata from a small number of files, such as DNG files produced by Leica M8 cameras.
Fixed bug #1869065: Debian Buster can’t find package
Fixed bug introduced in 0.9.20 when resetting program preferences back to default values in the Preferences Dialog window.
Fixed bug #1870566: Missing default locale causes startup failure.
Fixed a bug where the number of photos and videos for a camera or phone would not be displayed under the devices section if the preference value “Scan only specific folders on devices” was not enabled.
Reinstated creation of build directory in setup.py if the build directory does not exist.
The install.py script will now only try to copy man pages to system man page directory if the same man pages were not previously installed.
Simplified release notes by moving content online documentation.
Updated Czech, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish translations.
Added support for program icon progress bars and badge counts on any desktop that supports the Unity LauncherEntry API, not just Ubuntu Unity or Gnome running under Ubuntu. (The Unity LauncherEntry API is used by desktops other than Unity and Ubuntu Gnome, e.g. KDE, Dash to Panel.)
Added missing property StartupWMClass to the program’s desktop file. It’s now possible to add the Rapid Photo Downloader launcher as a Favorite to the Gnome Shell dock and not have it appear as a duplicate entry when the program runs. This fix also enables program icon progress bars and badge counts under Gnome Shell extensions that support them.
Implemented feature request in bug #1810102: cannot change language in program preferences. You can now specify the language you want the user interface to display in regardless of the system locale setting.
Fixed problems in setup.py. Made requirements.txt more conformant.
Better handle missing ExifTool on startup.
For distribution packagers, this release adds new package dependencies. The SVG module for Qt 5 must be listed a required dependency, or else Rapid Photo Downloader’s SVG assets will fail to display (this has been happening under Pop!_OS, for example).
For openSUSE:
For Debian:
For Arch:
For Fedora:
Fixed errors in appstream metainfo file.
To better conform to appstream metadata requirements, renamed destktop and metadata files to net.damonlynch.rapid_photo_downloader.desktop and net.damonlynch.rapid_photo_downloader.metainfo.xml. The metainfo file is now installed in share/metainfo/, not share/appdata/.
Added Zorin OS to install.py script.
Only install symlinks to the program in a bin directory the users’s home directory (i.e. ~/bin) if necessary. On recent installations of Debian / Ubuntu / LinuxMint etc. with a default profile setup, this is no longer necessary.
When uninstalling the program that was previously installed with install.py script, remove any symlinks to it created in ~/bin.
Removed setup.cfg configuration file.
Removed notification informing the Timeline or provisional download folders was rebuilt.
Updated Dutch, Hungarian, Russian, Spanish, Russian, and Turkish translations.
Improved fix for a bug where thumbnails would not be able to have their checkmark set on or off with the mouse on recent versions of Qt. The fix in 0.9.19b2 did not always work. The environment variable RPD_THUMBNAIL_MARK_FIX introduced in 0.9.19b2 is no longer needed, and will be ignored.
Fixed bug #1842060: Wrong value saved for stored number.
Updated Czech, Dutch, French, and Spanish translations.
Fixed a bug where thumbnails would not be able to have their checkmark set on or off with the mouse on recent versions of Qt. See the release notes for details.
Improved visual appearance on high DPI screens.
Added HEIF / HEIC support. See the Release Notes for details.
Added support for CentOS 8 to installer script. Dropped support for Fedora 29 and older. Installer script no longer installs PyQt5 from PyPI on KDE Neon, because KDE Neon PyQt5 package is always up-to-date.
Added ’__MACOSX’ and to list of paths to ignore while scanning a device for photos and videos, and if the list of ignored paths is customized, add it and ‘THMBNL’ to the existing list of ignored paths.
No longer look for photos or videos in any directory on a camera or phone that contains a ‘.nomedia’ file.
Made Timeline and thumbnails render more quickly and accurately on displays with fractional scaling.
Fixed bug #1861591: install.py should handle cases with no LANG variable set.
Fixed bug #1833525: when using the filename and subfolder name preference editor, under some desktop styles the example file and subfolder names would shrink to the extent they would be truncated.
Fixed bug where Rapid Photo Downloader would crash when the Preferences dialog window was closed with the escape key.
Fixed bug where under some desktop styles the right side panel would always be open even if it had been closed when Rapid Photo Downloader last exited.
Fixed bug in install.py script which meant the most recent version of PyQt5 failed to install because pip failed to build it. The solution is to update the user’s copy of pip to the latest version (not the system-wide version). If this is not what you want, you can downgrade pip for your user after program installation. See the release notes for more details.
Fixed bug #1857144: with newer versions of the Python date time module Arrow, if Arrow had not been translated to use the user’s locale, Arrow will generate an exception when displaying the humanized form of some dates, causing Rapid Photo Downloader to crash. Now Rapid Photo Downloader reverts to English for any humanized string that Arrow fails to handle in the user’s locale.
Fixed bug #1853775: install.py script did not properly handle upgrading pip version < 9.0 when installing into a virtual environment, looping forever.
Added Turkish translation. Thank you to Ilker Alp for the translation. Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish, German, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, and Spanish translations.
Fixed bug #1840499: Crash when python library arrow is older than version 0.9.0
Suppress parsing warnings issued by python library arrow version >= 0.14.3 and < 0.15.0.
Allow the use of the Python instance that the install.py script is invoked with on Gentoo systems.
Updated Polish translation.
Fixed bug #1839699 where program would fail to start when the python library arrow 0.4.15 or newer is installed.
Added the directory THMBNL to the standard list of ignored directories. This directory is used on some Sony cameras.
Added %f argument to Exec component of desktop file, potentially fixing problem with the program not appearing in Gnome’s list of applications to deal with memory cards or cameras.
Updated Polish translation.
Fixed bug #1829145 where Rapid Photo Downloader could no longer access cameras, phones and tablets because other applications using had gained exclusive access over them. Most file managers, including Gnome Files, use GIO to gain control over cameras and phones as soon as they are plugged in. Rapid Photo Downloader therefore must instruct them to relinquish control before it can access the device. GIO / Glib changed the way paths were generated for cameras and phones in a way that was incompatible with libgphoto2’s port nomenclature.
Fix bug #1818280: sqlite3 database is locked while adding thumbnails.
Fix bug where thumbnails were not being displayed for jpeg images on cameras.
Fixed bug where scan process was failing to extract sample metadata from photos, which is needed to determine the time zone of the device being downloaded from.
Fixed bug where installing into a virtual environment on Ubuntu 19.04 would fail due to not mandating the installation of GObject introspection runtimes.
New Python package requirement: tenacity.
Removed restriction on Python package Tornado’s version limit.
Improved “Report a Problem” dialog window to include more details.
Updated Italian translation.
Fix bug #1821917: Error generating Timeline with Arrow 0.13.1.
Fix bug #1817481: Error deleting sample file at program exit.
Fix bug #1810572: Error getting camera configuration on certain cameras.
Again fix bug #1801504: PyQt5_sip not installed or upgraded for local user when system copy already installed (bug seen on Fedora 29). The fix in 0.9.13 did not always work.
When installing using the install.py script, upgrade pip if its version is less than 9.0.
Disable the program’s built-in upgrade procedure when running from within a python virtual environment.
Updated Czech, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish translations.
Added support for Sigma X3F file format.
Added support for installing into a Python virtual environment. See the file README.rst for installation instructions. Thanks to Matthias Homann for his code contribution.
Fix bug #1797479: New version check results in confusing messages on stderr when pip is not installed. Thanks to Eli Schwartz for the fix.
Added Deepin to supported Linux distributions.
Fixed bug #1801504: PyQt5_sip not installed or upgraded for local user when system copy already installed (bug seen on Fedora 29).
Import sip regardless of whether it is the private sip bundled with PyQt5 or a separate sip installation.
Added support for Canon CR3 format. Requires ExifTool 10.87 or newer. See the release notes for details on upgrading ExifTool. Note: program performance with CR3 files is notably slower than other photo file formats. Other photo file formats are read using the high performance library exiv2 to read metadata and extract thumbnails. Unfortunately exiv2 does not yet support the CR3 format. Exiv2 0.28 will support the CR3 format.
Fixed bug #1790351: Video date time metadata not parsed correctly when ‘DST’ appears in time zone component.
Added support for FFF and IIQ raw formats.
The MOS and MRW formats are now handled by ExifTool, not exiv2.
Better handle Exif date time values that unwisely deviate from the Exif Version 2.3 specification, e.g. Hasselblad files.
Fixed bug #1790278: File renaming and subfolder generation editor breaks with Python 3.7.
Updated installation script to use “loose” instead of “strict” Python version checking.
Fixed bug in installation script where a system installed Rapid Photo Downloader package was not being uninstalled.
Fixed bug #1791131: Report fatal camera access problem without crashing
Improved install.py script to install libmediainfo0 on openSUSE where the package exists.
Added CentOS 7.5 as supported Linux distribution. See the release notes for installation instructions.
Add weekday as locale’s abbreviated and full name to file renaming and subfolder generation options.
Correct mistake in fixing bug #1775654: optional dependencies listed in setup.py as required.
Fix bug #1787707: install.py does not handle installer tar path with spaces.
Improve detection of openSUSE in install.py script.
Better handle file managers that do not allow the selection of files using command line arguments, which is important for desktops like Mate, LXDE, and XFCE.
Provide sensible fallback when system erroneously reports default file manager.
Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, French, Japanese, Kabyle, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Spanish translations.
Fix bug #1784175: Make application compatible with changes to sip introduced in PyQt 5.11, and do not install PyQt 5.11 on systems with Python 3.5.3 or older.
Fix bug #1775654: optional dependencies listed in setup.py as required.
Fix bug #1755915: Crash while accessing non-existant SQL database ‘cache’ while exiting.
Fix bug #1764167: Division by zero error when scanning device that does not report its size
Fix bug #1774411: splash screen covering name-dialog when set to auto- download
Fixed bug in Appstream specification.
Updated German translation.
Fix bug #1750879: Sequence numbers increment incorrectly for videos when Synchronize RAW+JPEG enabled.
Fix bug in sequence letter generation.
Enable the disabling of new version checks in both the program logic and the user interface, which is useful for Linux distributions. To disable the check, Linux package maintainers should patch the file constants.py to change the line disable_version_check = False to disable_version_check = True.
Include tornado as a dependency instead of relying on the deprecated mini-tornado found in pyzmq.
Don’t crash when choosing an existing subfolder generation preset from the editor windows that is currently not displayed in the main window’s drop- down gear menu.
Don’t crash when getting tooltip for backup devices when no backup devices exist.
Updated Brazilian Portuguese, German and Greek translations.
Fixed bug where removing a download source while another source was being scanned could cause a crash when the timeline was scrolled.
Fixed bug where session sequence values were being reset every time a download was initiated, not every time the program was started.
Updated German, Hungarian and Norwegian Bokmål translations.
Fix bug #1738174: Don’t crash when right clicking in thumbnail checkbox and no thumbnail is selected.
Fix bug #1737416: Don’t scan cameras when browsing “This Computer”, and detect if a camera mount has been passed via the command line (which can happen when the program automatically launches in response to a camera being attached to the computer).
When opening a file in KDE’s Dolphin file manager, select the file (and thus highlight it), like is done with Gnome Files and several other file managers.
Fix bug #1737287: Don’t allow identical entries in subfolder generation and file renaming presets, where the preset names differ but their content is the same.
When scrolling is synchronized, and you click on a thumbnail, the top of the Timeline will be scrolled match to match it.
Don’t crash when only new files are displayed and the Timeline is scrolled when scrolling is synchronized.
Updated Czech, Dutch, Hungarian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish translations.
The Timeline is now shown by default when the program is first run, or settings are reset.
Added option to synchronize Timeline with thumbnails. Scroll one, and the other automatically scrolls too. Use the button at the bottom-right of the Timeline to toggle this feature.
After clearing a Timeline selection, the display of thumbnails will be positioned such that the the photos in the previous selection are visible. Previously, the thumbnails display would be scrolled all the way to the top after the Timeline selection had been cleared.
Added Hasselblad 3FR files to list of supported file formats. If you detect any problems with the accuracy of the metadata from this format, please let me know.
Work around MediaInfoLib bug #695 that caused the libmediainfo shared object file to be named incorrectly, making it appear to be missing.
Correctly parse Distribution version in installer when running on Fedora, Debian and Peppermint.
Install PyQt 5.9.2 or greater. Upgrade pymediainfo to version 2.2.0 or newer.
Updated Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Norwegian Nyorsk, Russian, and Spanish translations.
Added check to install.py installation script and upgrade.py upgrade script to ensure that SIP 4.19.3 is installed when PyQt 5.9 is installed. The combination of SIP 4.19.4 and PyQt 5.9 causes Rapid Photo Downloader to crash. Because SIP 4.19.4 is installed by default when installing PyQt 5.9, the install and upgrade scripts forcibly revert to SIP 4.19.3 when PyQt 5.9 is installed.
Add option to manually mark files as previously downloaded, allowing for occasions when another program has already downloaded the files. Right-click on one or more photo or video thumbnails to mark them as previously downloaded.
Add elementary OS to list of Linux distributions supported by the install.py script.
Fixed bug in upgrade script when reporting an operational failure.
Updated Chinese, Dutch, Italian, and Norwegian Bokmål translations.
Workaround bug in iOS devices that create on-the-fly subfolders from which to download that vary each time the device is initialized.
Add progress bars and badge counts when running under Ubuntu 17.10’s Dash to Dock extension.
Don’t crash when locale is not correctly set.
Updated Dutch, French and German translations.
When requesting GIO to unmount a camera / phone so it can be accessed by libgphoto2, retry several times if it fails. Sometimes a GIO client program such as Gnome Files needs a few seconds to relinquish control of the device.
Fixed bug where a crash could occur when removing a camera that was in the preliminary stages of being scanned.
Fixed a bug introduced in 0.9.3b1 where photo and video numbers and sizes were not displayed in the devices summary in the program’s left-hand pane.
Fixed a bug on Fedora where the maximum length for an sqlite3 query could be exceeded.
When running a user-installed python such as Anaconda or another custom python, where possible the install.py script now switches over to using the Linux distribution’s system python.
Under Python 3.6 or newer, bumped required version of pyzmq up to 16.0.2, hopefully avoiding a segfault observed with pyzmq 15.1.0 and ZeroMQ 4.1.5. See the Release Notes for more details.
Updated Catalan, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Kabyle, Norwegian Nynorsk, Russian, and Spanish translations.
The preference value “Scan non-camera devices lacking a DCIM folder” is replaced with the new preference value “Scan only specific folders on devices”, along with a list of folders to be scanned. By default, the default folders to scan are DCIM, PRIVATE, and MP_ROOT, but you can change these defaults using the program preferences. The change was made to account for camera and phone manufacturers whose devices save photos and videos in locations that differ from the DCIM specification.
Updated Catalan, German and Italian translations. Other translations will be updated for the final 0.9.3 release.
When displaying the time in the Timeline in a locale that does not use a twelve hour clock, correctly display the time using the 24 hour clock. If the times or dates being displayed in the Timeline are not displayed correctly in your language, please file a bug report.
Fixed a bug where an exception could occur when clicking on some Timeline entries or displaying their thumbnails as a tooltip. It occurred when the Timeline had one or more entries in the right-most column that spanned more than one calendar day. The code that generates the Timeline is among the most complex in the application. If you notice any problems, please file a bug report.
When a download device is inserted and downloaded files are already in the main window, the program will now ask if the completed downloads should be cleared. A new, associated program preference controls if the program should query and what action to take.
Improved visual appearance of preferences window.
Fixed a bug where the thumbnail extractors might crash when the thumbnail cache database had not yet been created, which could happen in unusual circumstances such as when the disk was under particularly heavy load.
Fixed bug extracting date/time metadata from videos where devices that create videos from which metadata cannot be extracted until the entire video is downloaded from the device.
When running LXQt, now assume the default file manager is pcmanfm-qt, regardless of what the mime-type handler reports. URIs passed to it now have the specific file stripped from the path, avoiding errors with pcmanfm-qt opening it. Currently, compared to more mature platforms like Gnome, LXQt has limitations that limit Rapid Photo Downloader’s functionality.
Added uninstall and uninstall including dependencies options to the install.py script.
Added localization to the install.py script. The install script now embeds the files needed for localization, and utilizes them if needed.
The install.py script now checks key installation folders for ownership and permission problems, fixing them if necessary.
The install.py script now correctly parses openSUSE’s zypper output to ascertain distribution packages that are already installed, saving time during installation.
In install.py, catch return code 104 from zypper se when no package is found.
Added support for Peppermint OS to the install.py script.
Terminate program at startup if the program’s own module imports are being loaded from conflicting sources, indicating more than one copy of the program has been installed.
Report gphoto2 errors on the command line and Error Reports window with the name of the error rather than its numeric code.
Catch file permission errors more effectively in copy, rename, and backup processes.
Fixed bug when deleting certain sample videos from a device that had already been removed.
Updated Belarusian, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Russian and Spanish translations.
Applied a patch from Mikael Wiesel to fix a bug where several strings were not available for translation. Additionally made available for translation some buttons whose text was untranslated. Moreover, humanized times such as “one hour ago” (all of which are generated using the python library Arrow) are now localized where Arrow supports it. Finally, date/times in tooltips that appear over thumbnails are now localized, and locale date / times are used in download subfolder and filename generation for values like months.
Add support for downloading, renaming and backing up log files, which can be associated with videos made using Magic Lantern.
Updated program AppData, renaming .desktop and .appdata.xml files to conform to reversed fully qualified domain name requirements.
Fixed bug in checking for new stable version.
Rearranged order of startup tasks to avoid rare bug where the user interface is not initialized before devices are handled.
Updated install script to automatically download latest version and run interactively only if asked to.
Updated install.py script to allow installation on Debian buster/sid.
Install PyQt5 from PyPi on x86_64 platforms with Python 3.5 or 3.6, avoiding segfaults on exit in Fedora and missing program icons in some Linux distributions.
To be able to generate video thumbnails for a wider range of video formats, on Debian-like Linux distributions and Fedora, where possible the install.py script installs the packages gstreamer-libav and gstreamer-plugins-good.
With rawkit 0.6.0 now supporting libraw 0.18, recent Linux distributions like Fedora 26 and Ubuntu 17.04 / 17.10 can now render thumbnails from raw files like DNG files produced by Android phones.
Updated Czech, French, German, Slovak and Spanish translations.
Include additional programs in detailed version output.
Updated Turkish translation.
Don’t attempt to download photos or videos of zero bytes length.
Updated Czech, French, Norwegian Bokmål, Japanese, Polish, Serbian, and Spanish translations.
Don’t allow entry of illegal filename characters in Job Codes, such as / (forward slash).
Handle cameras that are mounted using libgphoto2’s legacy connection method usbscsi.
Added warning message when ExifTool is not working.
Added GalliumOS to the list of Linux distros supported by the install.py.
Fixed bug where “Select a source folder” was displayed after rescanning a folder on This Computer.
Removed DistUtilsExtra from the list of dependencies by copying its core functionality into the setup.py file. This should make creating a Snap / AppImage / Flatpak easier.
Updated Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Japanese, Kabyle, Norwegian Bokmål, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian translations.
Added a Tip of the Day dialog.
Fixed bug where rendering destination storage space would crash when the destination device’s storage space is reported as zero bytes in size.
Fixed bug where install.py could get into an infinitely recurring state when the Linux distribution is is Linux Mint, but /etc/os-release wrongly identifies it as Ubuntu.
Added Help buttons to Program Preferences and File Renaming and Download Subfolder Generator editors that open the online documentation.
Added command line option to dump to the terminal basic information about attached cameras, which is useful for diagnosing potential problems with libgphoto2 and python-gphoto2.
Added dialog to inform user if the scan process had an unexpected fatal problem.
Added link to Changelog in dialog window notifying a new release is available.
Fixed bug on systems using Python 3.4 (such as openSUSE Leap 42.2) when creating a temporary directory during program upgrade.
Fixed bug where exception would occur when auto exit after download was activated.
Re-scan download sources after relevant program preference changes.
Fixed bug where a warning dialog window could be wrongly issued about a backup destination not being writable even though it though it is.
Fixed bug where tracking of bytes downloaded could occasionally fail when file copy errors were encountered.
Improved logging of file copy problems.
Fixed some translation bugs. Thanks to Jose Luis Tirado for pointing them out.
Updated Spanish and Czech translations, by Jose Luis Tirado and Pavel Borecki.
Fixed bug where installer would crash on Ubuntu when the Universe repository was not enabled.
Fixed bug to allow the error report window to run on versions of PyQt5 older than 5.6.
Implemented workarounds for several bugs in openSUSE GExiv2 introspection.
Fixed bug when comparing Enums on Python 3.4.
Fixed bug when reporting a file renaming problem in the error reporting window.
When running on the Unity 7 desktop, show count and download progress regardless of whether the .desktop file has hyphens or underscores.
Improved install.py script, adding openSUSE and the Fedora derivative Korora to list of supported distros. Moreover, the script now installs all program requirements without having to be manually restarted.
Implemented error report window. Error reports are now grouped by task: scanning a device, copying from a device, finalizing download subfolder and filenames, and backing up. Furthermore, reports now contain hyperlinks to the files on the filesystem and/or cameras, allowing easy access to them using a file manager.
A message dialog window is now displayed if back ups will not occur or if the download destinations have a problem.
Added ‘Program Warnings’ section to the preferences dialog window.
Optimized icon sizes in dialog windows.
Check for new version using secure connection.
Added an option to issue a warning if a file type unknown to the program is found on a download device.
Added an option to program preferences dialog to ignore DNG date/time metadata when downloading from MTP devices (like cellphones and tablets). When it is ignored, the DNG file’s modification time is used instead. Many (if not all) Android 6 and 7 devices create bogus DNG metadata values. Since the first alpha release, by default the program ignores the DNG date/time metadata when downloading from MTP devices.
Changed the count that appears above the program’s icon when running on the Unity desktop to show how many files are marked for download, instead of how many new files are available for download.
Fixed a bug where device scan would indicate a device was empty when the preference value ‘Ignored Paths on Devices’ contained no paths to ignore.
Fixed a bug where opening a file on an MTP device in a file browser would sometimes fail when the storage name component of the path was incorrectly identified.
Fixed bug where the case of the extension for XMP files, THM files and WAV files was not matching file renaming preferences.
Added dialog to configure program preferences.
Added progress bar to splash screen.
Fixed bug where URIs with spaces were not opening in the system file browser.
Minimized width required by Job Code and Backup, and Rename configuration panels.
Fixed detection of Unity desktop environment when desktop environment variable is set to ‘Unity:Unity7’
Disabled the use of the scrollwheel to insert preference values in the file and subfolder name editors.
Implement the user interface to enter Job Codes. Job Codes are now easier to assign compared to previous versions of Rapid Photo Downloader. You can assign Job Codes to sets of photos and/or videos before starting the download. That way you can efficiently apply a variety of Job Codes to different sets of photos and videos in the same download. Job codes are shown in the upper portion of each thumbnail.
Added Run button to upgrade dialog window that is shown when the program was successfully upgraded.
Fixed bug where a crash would occur after using the “Clear Completed Downloads” menu option.
Fixed bug where selecting a different part of the timeline did not always update which thumbnails should be selected. (The values in the Photo and Video “Select All” check boxes at the bottom right of the main window determine if a thumbnail should be selected or not).
Fixed bug in file renaming and subfolder name editors when running under PyQt 5.8 / Qt 5.8.
In systems where ExifTool is not installed, inform user via error message at startup, and abort.
In systems where libmediainfo is not installed, a warning message is displayed after program startup.
Added preliminary Greek translation, thanks to Dimitris Xenakis.
Display projected backup storage use in the Backup configuration panel, for each backup device (partition). If backing up to the same device as the download, the space taken by both the download and the backup is displayed. For example, supposing you are downloading 100 photos that use 2,000 MB of storage space to /home/user/Pictures, and you are backing them up to another folder in the same partition, the projected backup storage use for that partition will display 100 photos totalling 4,000 MB, because the partition will contain two copies of each photo. Likewise, the projected storage use in the download destinations is similarly adjusted.
Renamed ‘Storage Space’ in Destination configuration panel to ‘Projected Storage Use’, thereby more accurately describing what it displays.
Disallow download if there is insufficient space on any of the backup devices, like is already done for the download destinations.
Added right-click context menu to file system tree views with the option to open the file browser at the path that was right-clicked on.
Fixed a bug in the subfolder and file renaming editors to the stop the message area being scrolled out of view.
Fixed a bug where backup worker processes were never stopped until program exit.
Fixed a bug where pausing and resuming a download was not updated to match changes to threading made in version 0.9.0a7.
Updated install script to allow for quirks in LinuxMint and KDE Neon.
Updated Spanish, French and Italian translations.
Added backup configuration to the user interface. A future alpha release will show the backup destinations like they are shown in the Destinations tab.
A check for a new version is run at program startup. If the program was installed using python’s packaging system pip, and the latest version can be upgraded without new system dependencies, the program offers to download the new version and install it with minimal user intervention.
The graphical user interface is considerably more responsive when the program is under heavy load because of changes made in the ways helper threads are handled by the main window. Long-term program stability will also be improved, although in the short-term some bugs may have snuck in due to the threading changes.
Prompt for Job Code when file and folder naming preferences are changed to include it. Thanks to Monty Taylor for the fix.
Fixed bug #1656932: in certain circumstances the scan process could crash when trying to determine device time zones when examining sample photos and videos.
Fixed a bug too small of a portion of a .mov or .avi file from a camera or phone was being extracted in order to read video metadata.
Fixed a bug where thumbnails were not being rendered in the main window when the thumbnail was originally sourced from the Freedesktop.org thumbnail cache.
Disallow the running of the program as the root user.
Updated program installer to stop installation on Fedora 23 and Debian Jessie.
Corrected error in Spanish translation that caused crash when download started.
Refined detection of directory in which media are mounted (/media or /run/media).
Implemented photo and video file renaming preference configuration. Job code configuration will be implemented in a future alpha release.
Fixed crash when running on PyQt 5.7.
Added option to uninstall previous version of the program if running the install script on Debian/Ubuntu or Fedora like Linux distributions.
Added .m2ts video extension to supported video files.
Added tooltip to clarify meaning of storage space usage.
Added g++ to list of installation dependencies when installing on Debian derived distributions.
Only enable right-click menu option ‘Open in File Browser…’ when default file manager is known.
Handle use case where the path from which to download is passed on the command line without a command line switch, such as when Gnome launches the program in response to a device like a memory card containing photos being inserted.
Fixed bug where volumes where not correctly added to device white and blacklists.
Fixed bug where download conflict resolution preference value was being incorrectly set when importing preferences from version 0.4.11 or earlier.
Fixed bug where generating thumbnails for backed up files caused the backup process to crash.
Fixed crash where the library libmediainfo is not installed but the python package pymediainfo is.
Fixed generation of error message when there is an error copying file to a backup destination.
Fixed crash at startup bug when the Pictures or Videos XDG special directory was not set.
Fixed bug when selecting custom subfolder name generation preset from menu.
Fixed bug where ExifTool daemon processes were not always being terminated.
Added minimum size in bytes to read a variety of RAW and video metadata tags to analyze-pv-structure analysis.
Fixed bug where QFileSystemWatcher.removePaths() could be called with an empty directory list.
Fixed crash when cleaning generated video subfolder previews at program exit.
Updated Spanish translation, courtesy of Jose Luis Tirado. Also updated Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, French, German, Polish and Serbian translations.
Implemented photo and video subfolder generation preference configuration.
Fixed bug where translation of user interface into non-English languages was not occurring.
Fixed bug where input/output exception not being handled when probing mounts.
Fixed bug where crashed on startup when no desktop environment variable was set.
Fixed bug where crashed on startup when attempting to import the broken Python package EasyGui 0.98.
Selecting items in the Timeline or showing only new files can result in situations where there are files that have been marked for download that are not currently being displayed. In such a situation, when a download is started, a dialog will be displayed to warn that all checked files will be downloaded, not merely those currently displayed.
Changed heading of destination storage space to show projected bytes free instead of percent used.
Fixed bug where thumbnails might not be displayed for files that had already been downloaded during a previous progarm invocation.
If the environment variable RPD_SCAN_DEBUG is set to any value, the program’s scan operation will output voluminous debug information to stdout.
Added support for PyQt 5.6, namely its stricter rules regarding signal type matching.
Fixed bug when reporting inability to extract metadata from scan when not downloading from a camera
Added command line option to import preferences from from an old program version (0.4.11 or earlier).
Implemented auto unmount using GIO (which is used on most Linux desktops) and UDisks2 (all those desktops that don’t use GIO, e.g. KDE).
Fixed bug while logging processes being forcefully terminated.
Fixed bug where stored sequence number was not being correctly used when renaming files.
Fixed bug where download would crash on Python 3.4 systems due to use of Python 3.5 only math.inf
New features compared to the previous release, version 0.4.11:
Every aspect of the user interface has been revised and modernized.
Files can be downloaded from all cameras supported by gPhoto2, including smartphones. Unfortunately the previous version could download from only some cameras.
Files that have already been downloaded are remembered. You can still select previously downloaded files to download again, but they are unmarked by default, and their thumbnails are dimmed so you can differentiate them from files that are yet to be downloaded.
The thumbnails for previously downloaded files can be hidden.
Unique to Rapid Photo Downloader is its Timeline, which groups photos and videos based on how much time elapsed between consecutive shots. Use it to identify photos and videos taken at different periods in a single day or over consecutive days. A slider adjusts the time elapsed between consecutive shots that is used to build the Timeline. Time periods can be selected to filter which thumbnails are displayed.
Thumbnails are bigger, and different file types are easier to distinguish.
Thumbnails can be sorted using a variety of criteria, including by device and file type.
Destination folders are previewed before a download starts, showing which subfolders photos and videos will be downloaded to. Newly created folders have their names italicized.
The storage space used by photos, videos, and other files on the devices being downloaded from is displayed for each device. The projected storage space on the computer to be used by photos and videos about to be downloaded is also displayed.
Downloading is disabled when the projected storage space required is more than the capacity of the download destination.
When downloading from more than one device, thumbnails for a particular device are briefly highlighted when the mouse is moved over the device.
The order in which thumbnails are generated prioritizes representative samples, based on time, which is useful for those who download very large numbers of files at a time.
Thumbnails are generated asynchronously and in parallel, using a load balancer to assign work to processes utilizing up to 4 CPU cores. Thumbnail generation is faster than the 0.4 series of program releases, especially when reading from fast memory cards or SSDs. (Unfortunately generating thumbnails for a smartphone’s photos is painfully slow. Unlike photos produced by cameras, smartphone photos do not contain embedded preview images, which means the entire photo must be downloaded and cached for its thumbnail to be generated. Although Rapid Photo Downloader does this for you, nothing can be done to speed it up).
Thumbnails generated when a device is scanned are cached, making thumbnail generation quicker on subsequent scans.
Libraw is used to render RAW images from which a preview cannot be extracted, which is the case with Android DNG files, for instance.
Freedesktop.org thumbnails for RAW and TIFF photos are generated once they have been downloaded, which means they will have thumbnails in programs like Gnome Files, Nemo, Caja, Thunar, PCManFM and Dolphin. If the path files are being downloaded to contains symbolic links, a thumbnail will be created for the path with and without the links. While generating these thumbnails does slow the download process a little, it’s a worthwhile tradeoff because Linux desktops typically do not generate thumbnails for RAW images, and thumbnails only for small TIFFs.
The program can now handle hundreds of thousands of files at a time.
Tooltips display information about the file including name, modification time, shot taken time, and file size.
Right click on thumbnails to open the file in a file browser or copy the path.
When downloading from a camera with dual memory cards, an emblem beneath the thumbnail indicates which memory cards the photo or video is on
Audio files that accompany photos on professional cameras like the Canon EOS-1D series of cameras are now also downloaded. XMP files associated with a photo or video on any device are also downloaded.
Comprehensive log files are generated that allow easier diagnosis of program problems in bug reports. Messages optionally logged to a terminal window are displayed in color.
When running under Ubuntu’s Unity desktop, a progress bar and count of files available for download is displayed on the program’s launcher.
Status bar messages have been significantly revamped.
Determining a video’s correct creation date and time has been improved, using a combination of the tools MediaInfo and ExifTool. Getting the right date and time is trickier than it might appear. Depending on the video file and the camera that produced it, neither MediaInfo nor ExifTool always give the correct result. Moreover some cameras always use the UTC time zone when recording the creation date and time in the video’s metadata, whereas other cameras use the time zone the video was created in, while others ignore time zones altogether.
The time remaining until a download is complete (which is shown in the status bar) is more stable and more accurate. The algorithm is modelled on that used by Mozilla Firefox.
The installer has been totally rewritten to take advantage of Python’s tool pip, which installs Python packages. Rapid Photo Downloader can now be easily installed and uninstalled. On Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora-like Linux distributions, the installation of all dependencies is automated. On other Linux distrubtions, dependency installation is partially automated.
When choosing a Job Code, whether to remember the choice or not can be specified.
Removed feature:
Under the hood, the code now uses:
PyQt 5.4 +
gPhoto2 to download from cameras
Python 3.4 +
ZeroMQ for interprocess communication
GExiv2 for photo metadata
Exiftool for video metadata
Gstreamer for video thumbnail generation
Please note if you use a system monitor that displays network activity, don’t be alarmed if it shows increased local network activity while the program is running. The program uses ZeroMQ over TCP/IP for its interprocess messaging. Rapid Photo Downloader’s network traffic is strictly between its own processes, all running solely on your computer.
Missing features, which will be implemented in future releases:
Components of the user interface that are used to configure file renaming, download subfolder generation, backups, and miscellaneous other program preferences. While they can be configured by manually editing the program’s configuration file, that’s far from easy and is error prone. Meanwhile, some options can be configured using the command line.
There are no full size photo and video previews.
There is no error log window.
Some main menu items do nothing.
Files can only be copied, not moved.
Updated Brazilian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, German, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese and Swedish translations.
Fixed crash on systems using the library Pillow 3.0.
Updated AppData file.
Updated Catalan and Portuguese translations.
Fixed bug in translations for term “Back up”.
Updated Catalan and Spanish translations.
Fixed occasional incorrect use of term “backup”.
Added file verification of downloaded and backed up files.
Updated Dutch, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Serbian, Spanish and Swedish translations. Added Catalan translation.
Fixed bugs #1025908 and #1186955: Finalize fix for severe performance problems and crashes that arose from the combination of Gnome’s GIO file functionality and python’s multiprocessing. The solution was to remove GIO and replace it with regular python file processing. A nice side effect is that the program now runs faster than ever before.
Fixed bug #1268291: Handle cases where filesystem metadata (e.g. file permissions) could not be copied when writing to certain file systems such as NTFS. The program will now consider a file is copied succesfully even if the filesystem metadata could not be updated.
Fixed bug #1269032: When Sync RAW + JPEG sequence numbers is enabled, the program fails to properly deal with photos with corrupt EXIF metadata.
Fixed bug #1269079: Download failure when folder exists for only one of photo or video on auto detected back devices.
Updated Norwegian and Serbian translations.
Fixed bug #1263237: Added support for MPO files (3D images). Thanks to Jan Kaluza for reporting it.
Fixed bug #1263483: Some terms in the user interface are not being translated. Thanks to Jose Luis Tirado for alerting me to the problem, which has probably existed for some time.
Updated Dutch, French Italian, Polish and Spanish translations.
Added feature to download audio files that are associated with photos such as those created by the Canon 1D series of cameras.
Fixed bug #1242119: Choosing a new folder does not work in Ubuntu 13.10. In Ubuntu 13.10, choosing a destination or source folder from its bookmark does not work. The correct value is displayed in the file chooser button, but this value is not used by Rapid Photo Downloader.
Fixed bug #1206853: Crashes when system message notifications not functioning properly.
Fixed bug #909405: Allow selections by row (and not GTK default by square) when user is dragging the mouse or using the keyboard to select. Thank you to user ‘Salukibob’ for the patch.
Added a KDE Solid action. Solid is KDE4’s hardware-related framework. It detects when the user connects a new device and display a list of related actions. Thanks to dju` for the patch.
Added Belarusian translation – thanks go to Ilya Tsimokhin. Updated Swedish and Ukrainian translations.
Fixed bug #1083756: Application shows duplicate sources.
Fixed bug #1093330: Photo rename ignores SubSeconds when 00.
Added extra debugging output to help trace program execution progress.
Updated German and Spanish translations.
Fixed bug #1023586: Added RAW file support for Nikon NRW files. Rapid Photo Downloader uses the exiv2 program to read a photo’s metadata. Although the NRW format is not officially supported by exiv2, it appears to work. If you have NRW files and Rapid Photo Downloader crashes while reading this files, please file a bug report.
Preliminary and tentative fix for bug #1025908: Application freezes under Ubuntu 12.10. This fix should not be considered final, and needs further testing.
Added Arabic translation. Updated Czech, Danish, French, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish and Swedish translations.
Fixed missing dependencies on python-dbus and exiv2 in Debian/control file.
Added extra debugging output to help trace program execution progress.
Updated Dutch, Estonian, German, Italian, Norwegian and Polish translations.
Updated man page.
To increase performance, thumbnails are now no longer displayed until all devices have finished being scanned. To indicate the scan is occurring, the progress bar now pulses and it displays a running total of the number of photos and videos found. If scanning a very large number of files from a fast device, the progress bar may pause. If this happens, just wait for the scan to complete.
Fixed bug #1014203: Very poor program performance after download device changed. The program now displays the results of scanning files much quicker if the program’s download device preferences are changed and a scan begins of a new device.
You can now specify via the command line whether you would like to automatically detect devices from which to download, or manually specify the path of the device. If specified, the option will overwrite the existing program preferences.
Added extra information to debugging output.
Fixed bug #1014219: File Modify process crashes if program exits during download.
Fixed bug #998320: Applied patch from Dmitry Kazimirov for option to have subfolder generation and file renaming use a month in text format. Thanks Dmitry!
Fixed bug #986681: Crash when showing question dialog on some non-Gnome systems. Thanks go to Liudas Ališauskas for the suggested fix.
Fixed bug #995769: The Help button in the preferences dialog does not work.
Fixed bug #996613: Updated Free Software Foundation address.
Added Estonian translation. Updated Brazilian, Dutch, French, German, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Spanish and Russian translations.
ExifTool is now a required dependency for Rapid Photo Downloader. ExifTool can be used to help download videos on Linux distributions that have not packaged hachoir-metadata, such as Fedora.
Exiftran is another new dependency. It is used to automatically rotate JPEG images.
Fixed bug #704482: Delete photos option should be easily accessible -
Added a toolbar at the top of the main program window, which gives immediate access to the most commonly changed configuration options: where files will be transferred from, whether they will be copied or moved, and where they will be transferred to.
Please when the move option is chosen, all files in the download from a device are first copied before any are deleted. In other words, only once all source files have been successfully copied from a device to their destination are the source files deleted from that device.
Fixed bug #754531: extract Exif.CanonFi.FileNumber metadata -
Added FileNumber metadata renaming option, which is a Canon-specific Exif value in the form xxx-yyyy, where xxx is the folder number and yyyy is the image number. Uses ExifTool. Thanks go to Etieene Charlier for researching the fix and contributing code to get it implemented.
Fixed bug #695517: Added functionality to download MTS video files. There is currently no python based library to read metadata from MTS files, but ExifTool works.
Fixed bug #859998: Download THM video thumbnail files -
Some video files have THM video thumbnail files associated with them. Rapid Photo Downloader now downloads them and renames them to match the name of the video it is associated with.
Fixed bug #594533: Lossless JPEG rotation based on EXIF data after picture transfer -
There is now an option to automatically rotate JPEG photos as they are downloaded. The program exiftran is used to do the rotation. The feature is turned on default.
Fixed bug #859012: Confirm if really want to download from /home, /media or /
It is possible for the program’s preferences to be set to download from /home, /media or / (the root of the file system). This can result in the program scanning a very large number of files, possibly causing the system to become unresponsive. The program now queries the user before commencing this scan to confirm if this is really what they want to do.
Fixed bug #792228: clear all thumbnails when refresh command issued.
Fixed bug #890949: Panasonic MOD format and duplicate filename issue
Fixed a bug where the device progress bar would occasionally disappear when the download device was changed.
Fixed a bug where the file extensions the program downloads could not be displayed from the command line.
Fixed a bug where the program would crash when trying to convert a malformed thumbnail from one image mode to another.
Updated Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish and Swedish translations.
Added feature in Preferences window to remove any paths that have previously been marked to always be scanned or ignored. These paths can be specified when automatic detection of Portable Storage Devices is enabled.
Fixed bug #768026: added option to ignore paths from which to download -
You can now specify paths never to scan for photos or videos. By default, any path ending in .Trash or .thumbnails is ignored. Advanced users can specify paths to never scan using python-style regular expressions.
Fixed bug #774488: added manual back up path for videos, in addition to photos
You can now manually specify a path specifically in which to back up videos. This can be the same as or different than the path in which to back up photos.
Fixed bug #838722: wrong file types may be backed up to external devices
Fixed a bug when auto detection of backup devices is enabled, files of the wrong type might be backed up. For instance, if the backup device is only meant to store videos, and the download contains photos, photos would incorrectly be backed up to the device in addition to videos.
Fixed bug #815727: Back up errors and warnings incorrectly displayed in log window -
Fixed a bug that occurred when backing up errors are encountered, the log window did not display them correctly, although they were correctly outputted to the terminal window. This only occurred when more than one back up device was being used during a download.
Fixed bug #859242: Crash when displaying a preview of file without an extracted thumbnail.
Fixed bug #810559: Crash when generating thumbnail images
Fixed bug #789995: crash when –reset-settings option is given on the command line.
Fixed bugs #795446 and #844714: small errors in translation template.
Fixed a bug in the Swedish translation.
Added Danish translation, by Torben Gundtofte-Bruun. Updated Brazilian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish translations.
Added exif Artist and Copyright metadata options to file and subfolder name generation.
Fixed bug #774476: thumbnails occasionally not sorted by file modification time.
Fixed bug #784399: job code not prompted for after preference change.
Fixed bug #778085: crash when trying to scan inaccessible files on mounted camera.
Relaxed startup test to check whether pynotify is working. On some systems, pynotify reports it is not working even though it is.
Added the start of an Indonesian translation. Updated Brazilian, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian translations.
Features added since Release Candidate 1:
Bug fix: translation fixes.
Bug fix: don’t crash when completing download with backups enabled and no backup devices detected.
Updated Dutch, French, German, Polish, Russian, Serbian and Spanish translations.
Features added since beta 1:
Backups have been implemented. If you are backing up to more than one device, Rapid Photo Downloader will backup to each device simultaneously instead of one after the other.
When clicking the Download button before thumbnails are finished generating, the download proceeds immediately and the thumbnails remaining to be generated will rendered during the download itself.
Added preferences option to disable thumbnail generation. When auto start is enabled, this can speed-up transfers when downloading from high-speed devices.
Access to the preferences window is now disabled while a download is occurring, as changing preferences when files are being download can cause problems.
Bug fix: don’t crash when downloading some files after having previously downloaded some others in the same session.
Updated Brazilian, Dutch, German and Russian translations.
Features added since alpha 4:
Job Code functionality, mimicking that found in version 0.2.3.
Eject device button for each unmountable device in main window.
When not all files have been downloaded from a device, the number remaining is displayed in the device’s progress bar
Overall download progress is displayed in progress bar at bottom of window
Time remaining and download speed are displayed in the status bar
System notification messages
Automation features:
Automatically start a download at program startup or when a device is inserted. When this is enabled, to optimize performance instead of thumbnails being generated before the files are downloaded, they are generated during the download.
Eject a device when all files have been downloaded from it.
Exit when all files have been downloaded.
The automation feature to delete downloaded files from a device will be added only when the non-alpha/beta of version 0.4.0 is released.
The major feature currently not implemented is backups.
Note: if videos are downloaded, the device may not be able to be unmounted until Rapid Photo Downloader is exited. See bug #744012 for details.
Bug fix: adjust vertical pane position when additional devices are inserted
Bug fix: display file and subfolder naming warnings in error log
Updated Czech, French and Russian translations.
This release contains a minor fix to allow program preferences to be changed on upcoming Linux distributions like Ubuntu 11.04 and Fedora 15.
It also contains a minor packaging change so it can be installed in Ubuntu 11.04.
Features added since alpha 2:
Error log window to display download warnings and errors.
Synchronize RAW + JPEG Sequence values.
Fixed bug #739021: unable to set subfolder and file rename preferences on alpha and beta Linux distributions such as Ubuntu 11.04 or Fedora 15.
Updated Brazilian, Dutch, French, German and Spanish translations.
Features added since alpha 1:
Other changes:
Updated INSTALL file to match new package requirements.
Added program icon to main window.
Bug fix: leave file preview mode when download devices are changed in the preferences.
Bug fix: don’t crash on startup when trying to display free space and photo or video download folders do not exist.
Rapid Photo Downloader is much faster and sports a new user interface. It is about 50 times faster in tasks like scanning photos and videos before the download. It also performs the actual downloads quicker. It will use multiple CPU cores if they are available.
Rapid Photo Downloader now requires version 0.3.0 or newer of pyexiv2. It also requires Python Imaging (PIL) to run. It will only run on recent Linux distributions such as Ubuntu 10.04 or newer. It has been tested on Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04, as well as Fedora 14. (There is currently an unusual bug adjusting some preferences when running Ubuntu 11.04. See bug #739021).
This is an alpha release because it is missing features that are present in version 0.3.5. Missing features include:
System Notifications of download completion
Job Codes
Backups as you download
Automation features, e.g. automatically start download at startup
Error log window (currently you must check the command line for error output)
Time remaining status messages
Synchronize RAW + JPEG Sequence Numbers
Add unique identifier to a filename if a file with the same name already exists
Sample file names and subfolders are not displayed in the preferences window
These missing features will be added in subsequent alpha and beta releases.
Kaa-metadata is no longer required to download videos. However, if you want to use Frames Per Second or Codec metadata information in subfolder or video file names, you must ensure it is installed. This is no longer checked at program startup.
Thanks go to Robert Park for refreshing the translations code.
Added Romanian translation.
The primary purpose of this release is update translations and fix bug #714039, where under certain circumstances the program could crash while downloading files.
This is intended to be the last release in the 0.3.x series. In the upcoming version 0.4.0, Rapid Photo Downloader is much faster and sports a new user interface.
Added Romanian translation. Updated Brazilian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, German, Italian, Polish and Russian translations.
You can now change the size of the preview image by zooming in and out using a slider. The maximum size is double that of the previous fixed size, which was 160px. On computers with small screens such as netbooks, the maximum preview image size is the same as the previous fixed size. Please note that Rapid Photo Downloader only extracts thumbnails of photos; for performance reasons, it does not create them. This means for some file formats, the thumbnails will contain jpeg artifacts when scaled up (this is particularly true when using a version of pyexiv2 < 0.2.0). For users who require larger preview images, this will be of little consequence.
When the “Strip compatible characters” feature is enabled in the Preferences (which is the default), any white space (e.g. spaces) beginning or ending a folder name will now be removed.
Bug fix: camera serial numbers are now stripped of any spaces preceding or following the actual value.
Fixed bug #685335: inaccurate description of python packages required for downloading videos.
Added Croatian translation. Updated French, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish and Russian translations.
Added support for mod, tod and 3gp video files.
Hachoir-metadata is now used to extract selected metadata from video files. It has less bugs than kaa-metadata, and is better maintained. One benefit of this change is that more video file types can have their metadata extracted. Another is that the video creation date is now correctly read (the creation time read by kaa metadata was sometimes wrong by a few hours). Kaa-metadata is still used to extract some the codec, fourcc and frames per second (FPS) metadata.
Fixed bug #640722: Added preliminary support for Samsung SRW files. Current versions of Exiv2 and pyexiv2 can read some but not all metadata from this new RAW format. If you try to use metadata that cannot be extracted, Rapid Photo Downloader will issue a warning.
Fixed bug #550883: Generation of subfolders and filenames using the time a download was started.
Fixed bugs related to missing video download directory at program startup.
Added command line option to output to the terminal information useful for debugging.
Added Norwegian Bokmål and Portuguese translations. Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovak and Ukrainian translations.
Added Norwegian Nynorsk translation. Updated Chinese, Finnish, Hungarian, Dutch, Occitan (post 1500), Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Russian translations.
Fixed crash on startup when checking for free space, and the download folder does not exist.
The main window now works more effectively on tiny screens, such as those found on netbooks. If the screen height is less than or equal to 650 pixels, elements in the preview pane are removed, and the spacing is tightened.
The amount of free space available on the file-system where photos are to be downloaded is now displayed in the status bar. (Note this is only the case on moderately up-to-date Linux distributions that use GVFS, such as Ubuntu 8.10 or higher).
Add Chinese (simplified) translation. A big thanks goes out to the Ubuntu Chinese translation team. Partial translations of Bulgarian, Japanese, Occitan (post 1500), Persian, Portuguese (Brazilian), and Turkish have been added. In the past only translations that were largely finished were added, but hopefully adding incomplete translations will speed up their completion. Updated Finnish, French, Hungarian, Russian, Serbian and Spanish translations.
The major new feature of this release is the generation of previews before a download takes place. You can now select which photos and videos you wish to download.
You can now assign different Job Codes to photos and videos in the same download. Simply select photos and videos, and from the main window choose a Job Code for them. You can select a new Job Code,or enter a new one (press Enter to apply it).
The errors and warnings reported have been completely overhauled, and are now more concise.
Now that you can select photos and videos to download, the “Report an error” option in case of filename conflicts has been removed. If you try to download a photo or video that already exists, an error will be reported. If you backup a photo or video that already exists in the backup location, a warning will be reported (regardless of whether overwriting or skipping of backups with conflicting filenames is chosen).
Likewise, the option of whether to report an error or warning in case of missing backup devices has been removed. If you have chosen to backup your photos and videos, and a backup device or location is not found, the files will be downloaded with warnings.
For each device in the main window, the progress bar is now updated much more smoothly than before. This is useful when downloading and backing up large files such as videos. (Note this is only the case on moderately up-to-date Linux distributions that use GVFS, such as Ubuntu 8.10 or higher).
The minimum version of python-gtk2 (pygtk) required to run the program is now 2.12. This will affect only outdated Linux distributions.
Fixed bug #598736: don’t allow file to jump to the bottom when it has a Job Code assigned to it.
Fixed bug #601993: don’t prompt for a Job Code when downloading file of one type (photo or video), and it’s only a file of the other type that needs it.
Log error messages are now cleaned up where a file already exists and there were problems generating the file / subfolder name.
Fixed crash on startup when using an old version of GIO.
Fix crash in updating the time remaining in when downloading from extremely slow devices.
Set the default height to be 50 pixels taller.
Bug fix: don’t download from device that has been inserted after program starts unless device auto detection is enabled.
Updated German translation.
Added warning dialog if attempting to download directly from a camera.
Add backup errors details to error log window.
Fixed program notifications.
Fixed corner cases with problematic file and subfolder names.
Disabled Download All button if all files that have not been downloaded have errors.
Enabled and disabled Download All button, depending on status, after subfolder or filename preferences are modified after device has been scanned.
Don’t stop a file being downloaded if a valid subfolder or filename can be generated using a Job Code.
Bug fix: don’t automatically exit if there were errors or warnings and a download was occurring from more than one device.
Auto start now works correctly again.
Job Codes are now assigned correctly when multiple downloads occur.
Default column sorting is by date, unless a warning or error occurs when doing the initial scan of the devices, in which case it is set to status (unless you have already clicked on a column heading yourself, in which case it will not change).
Use the command xdg-user-dir to get default download directories.
Updated Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, Italian, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian translations.
Fixed bug in Job Code addition in the preferences window.
Made Job Code entry completion case insensitive.
Update preview to be the most recently selected photo / video when multiple files are selected.
Don’t crash when user selects a row that has its status set to be download pending.
Improve error log status messages and problem notifications.
Updated Hungarian, Russian, Swedish and Ukrainian translations.
Fixed bug #590725: don’t crash if the theme does not associate an icon with the detected device.
Bug fix: update example filenames and folders when Job codes are manually modified in the preferences window.
This is the final release before 0.3.0, which will be a major update.
Added Ukrainian translation by Sergiy Gavrylov.
Bug fix: in systems where exiv2 is not installed, don’t crash on startup.
Bug fix: display sample photo and video names in preferences dialog using first photo and video found on download device, where possible. This used to work but was inadvertently disabled in a recent release.
Bug fix: prompt for Job code when only video names or video subfolder names use a job code.
Bug fix: filter out Null bytes from Exif string values. These can occur when the Exif data is corrupted.
Updated Spanish, Russian and Finnish translations.
Videos can now be downloaded in much the same way photos can.
The package kaa metadata is required to download videos. ffmpegthumbnailer is used to display thumbnail images of certain types of videos as the download occurs.
kaa metadata and ffmpegthumbnailer are optional. The program will run without them. See the INSTALL file for details.
If a THM file with the same name as the video is present, it will be used to generate a thumbnail for the video. If not, if ffmpegthumbnailer is installed, Rapid Photo Downloader will use it to attempt to extract a thumbnail from the video. THM files are not downloaded.
For now, sequence values are shared between the downloads of videos and photos. There may be an option to have two sets of sequence numbers in a future release.
Due to the number of changes in the code, it is possible that regressions in the photo downloading code may have been introduced.
This is the first release to use version 0.2.x of the pyexiv2 library. The most immediate benefit of this change is that thumbnail images from Nikon and other brand cameras can be displayed. This fixes bugs #369640 and #570378.
Please note pyexiv2 0.2.x requires exiv2 0.1.9 or above.
Rapid Photo Downloader will still work with pyexiv2 0.1.x. However it will not be able to display the thumbnails of some brands of camera.
If Rapid Photo Downloader detects version 0.18.1 or higher of the exiv2 library, it will download Panasonic’s RW2 files. If it detects version 0.18.0 or higher of the exiv2 library, it will download Mamiya’s MEF files. For Rapid Photo Downloader to be able to detect which version of the exiv2 library your system has, it must either be running pyexiv2 >= 0.2.0, or have exiv2 installed.
Fixed bug #483222: sometimes images could not be downloaded to NTFS partitions. This fix was a welcome side effect of using GIO to copy images, instead of relying on the python standard library.
Error message headings in the Error Log are now displayed in a red font.
Program settings and preferences can be reset using a new command line option.
Program preferences are now more thoroughly checked for validity when the program starts.
Further work was done to fix bug #505492, to handle cases where the system notification system is not working properly.
Fixed bug #509348: When both the backup and “Delete images from image device upon download completion” options are selected, the program will only delete an image from the image device if it was both downloaded to the download folder and backed up. Previously it did not check to ensure it was backed up correctly too.
Fixed bug #505492: Program failed to start in environments where the notification system has problems.
Fixed bug #508304: User is now prompted to confirm if they really want to remove all of their Job Codes after clicking on “Remove All” in the preferences dialog window.
Fixed bug #510484: Crashes when fails to create temporary download directory.
Fixed bug #510516: Program now checks to see if the download folder exists and is writable. If automatic detection of image devices is not enabled, it checks to see if the image location path exists.
Updated Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Spanish and Swedish translations.
New feature: photographers using RAW + JPEG mode now have the option to synchronize sequence numbers for the matching pair of images. This option is useful if you use the RAW + JPEG feature on your camera and you use sequence numbers or letters in your image renaming. Enabling this option will cause the program to detect matching pairs of RAW and JPEG images, and when they are detected, the same sequence numbers and letters will be applied to both image names. Furthermore, sequences will be updated as if the images were one. For example, if 200 RAW images and 200 matching JPEG images are downloaded, the value of Downloads today will be incremented by 200, and not
Increased maximum sequence number length to seven digits by user request.
Fixed bug #503704: changes in values for downloads today and stored number not updated when changed via program preferences while a download is ready to begin.
Fixed a rare startup bug, where the program could crash when starting a thread.
Added Serbian translation by Milos Popovic. Updated Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Spanish and Swedish translations.
Added auto delete feature. When enabled, upon the completion of a download, images that were successfully downloaded will be deleted from the image device they were downloaded from. Images that were not downloaded successfully will not be deleted.
Added keyboard accelerators for Preferences and Help.
Added Dutch translation by Alian J. Baudrez. Updated Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Slovak and Spanish translations.
Added icons to notification messages.
Updated Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Spanish and Swedish translations.
Bug fix: properly handle devices being unmounted, fixing a bug introduced in Version 0.0.9 beta 2.
Bug fix: When program preferences are changed, image and backup devices are now refreshed only when the preferences dialog window is closed.
Bug fix: Minutes component of image and folder renaming had the same code as months.
New feature: when detection of portable storage devices is selected, the program will prompt you whether or not to download from each device it automatically detects. You can choose whether the program should remember the choice you make every time it runs. This fixes bug #376020.
Fixed bug #484432: error in adding job codes via the preferences dialog.
Fixed bug #486886: Job code prompt can appear multiple times.
Updated Hungarian and French translations.
This code is ready for full release, but given the magnitude of changes, a beta seems like a good idea, simply to catch any undetected bugs.
Added a “Job codes” option. Like the “text” option in image and subfolder name generation, this allows you to specify text that will be placed into the file and subfolder names. However, unlike the “text” option, which requires that the text be directly entered via the program preferences, when using the “Job code” option, the program will prompt for it each time a download begins.
Made Download button the default button. Hitting enter while the main window has focus will now start the download.
Fixed bug #387002: added dependency in Ubuntu packages for librsvg2-common. Thanks go to user hasp for this fix.
Fixed bug #478620: problem with corrupted image files. Thanks go to user Katrin Krieger for tracking this one down.
Fixed bug #479424: some camera model names do not have numbers, but it still makes sense to return a shortened name. Thanks go to user Wesley Harp for highlighting this problem.
Fixed bug #482831: program no longer crashes when auto-download is off, and a device is inserted before another download has completed.
Added Czech translation by Tomas Novak.
Added French translation by Julien Valroff, Michel Ange, and Cenwen.
Added Hungarian translation by Balazs Oveges and Andras Lorincz.
Added Slovak translation by Tomas Novak.
Added Swedish translation by Ulf Urden and Michal Predotka.
Added dependency on gnome-icon-theme in Ubuntu packages.
Added additional hour, minute and second options in image renaming and subfolder creation. Thanks to Art Zemon for the patch.
Malformed image date time exif values have are minimally checked to see if they can still be used for subfolder and image renaming. Some software programs seem to make a mess of them.
Updated man page, including a bug fix by Julien Valroff.
Updated Russian translation by Sergei Sedov.
Fixed bug #383028: program would crash when using an automatically configured backup device and gvfs.
Added Italian translation by Marco Solari and Luca Reverberi.
Added German translation by Martin Egger and Daniel Passler.
Added Russian translation by Sergei Sedov.
Added Finnish translation by Mikko Ruohola.
A Help button has been added to Preferences dialog window. Clicking it takes you to the documentation found online at the program’s website. This documentation is now complete.
The Preferences Dialog Window is now navigated using a list control, as it was in early versions of the program. This change was necessary because with some translations, the dialog window was becoming too wide with the normal tab layout. Usability of the preferences dialog is improved: it will now resize itself based on its content.
Better integration with Nautilus is now possible through the setting of MimeType=x-content/image-dcf in the program’s .desktop file.
Added Spanish translation by Jose Luis Navarro and Abel O’Rian.
Whenever subfolder preferences are modified in the Preferences Dialog window, they are now checked to see if they contain any extraneous entries. If necessary, any entries like this are removed when the dialog window is closed.
Bug fix: Changes in preferences should be applied to devices that have already been scanned, but their images not yet downloaded. This bug was introduced in beta 2 when fixing bug #368098.
Bug fix: check subfolder preferences for validity before beginning download. While image rename preferences were checked, this check was neglected.
Bug fix: do not allow automatic downloading when there is an error in the preferences.
Added command line options for controlling verbosity, displaying which image file types are recognized, and printing the program version.
Updated man page to reflect recent program changes and new command line options.
Prepared program for translation into other languages. Thanks go to Mark Mruss and his blog http://www.learningpython.com for code examples and explanations.
Polish translation by Michal Predotka. Coming soon: French, German and Spanish translations.
To install the program using python setup.py, the program msgfmt must now be present. On most Linux distributions, this is found in the package gettext.
Updated INSTALL file to reflect minimum version of pyexiv2 needed, and included information about handling any error related to msgfmt not being installed.
Minor fixes to logic that checks whether the Download button should be disabled or not. This should now be more reliable.
Bug fix: error log window can now be reopened after being closed with the “x” button. Thanks go to ESR and his Python FAQ entry for this fix.
Bug fix: example of subfolder name now has word wrap. Thanks go to Michal Predotka for reporting this.
Bug fix: don’t crash when a thumbnail image is missing and the ‘orientation’ variable has not yet been assigned.
By popular demand, allow direct downloading from cameras. This support is experimental and may not work with your camera. This is possible through the use of the new gvfs service, provided by GIO, that exists in recent versions of Linux. A recent version of Linux is a must. The camera must also be supported by libgphoto2 in combination with gvfs. If you cannot browse the camera’s contents in a file manager (e.g. Nautilus), the camera download will not work until the gvfs support is improved.
Although this is a popular request, the reality is that downloading images directly from the camera is often extremely slow in comparison to popping the memory card into a card reader and downloading from that.
Fix bug #368098: the program now starts more quickly and does not become unresponsive when scanning devices with a large number of images. This will hardly be noticeable by users that download from memory cards, but for those who download from hard drives with hundreds of GBs of files – they’ll notice a big difference.
Fix bug #372284: for image renaming, the “image number” component is more robust. Now, only the series of digits at the end of a filename are recognized as the image number (obviously the file’s extension is not included as being part of the filename in this case). This allows takes in account files from cameras like the Canon 1D series, which can have filenames like VD1D7574.CR2.
Bug fix: don’t download from volumes mounted while the program is already running unless auto detection is specified. This bug could occur when auto detection was enabled, then disabled, and then a volume was mounted.
Added stored and downloads today sequence numbers:
The stored sequence number is remembered each time the program is run.
Downloads today tracks how many downloads are made on a given day. The time a day “starts” is set via a new preference value, day start. This is useful if you often photograph something late at night (e.g. concerts) and want a new day to “start” at 3am, for instance.
Make estimate of time remaining to download images much more accurate.
Display download speed in status bar.
Reorganized sequence number/letter selection in preferences.
Add feature to detect change in program version, upgrading preferences where necessary.
Only allow one instance of the program to be run – raise existing window if it is run again. This is very useful when Rapid Photo Downloader is set to run automatically upon insertion of a memory card.
Add “exit at end of successful download” automation feature.
When an image’s download is skipped, the thumbnail is now lightened.
Show a missing image icon if the thumbnail cannot be displayed for some reason. (See bug #369640 for why thumbnail images from certain RAW files are not displayed).
Resize main window when an image device is inserted – it now expands to show each device that is inserted.
Do not proceed with download if there is an error in the image rename or download subfolder preferences. Instead, indicate a download error.
Allow version 0.1.1 of pyexiv2 to be used (an older version of the library code that is used to get information on the images, found in distributions like Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron).
In cases where image rename or download subfolder preferences are invalid, more helpful information is printed to the console output.
Bug fix: better handle automated shortening Canon names like ‘Canon 5D Mark II’. It is now shortened to ‘5DMkII’ instead of merely ‘5D’.
Bug fix: re-enable example of image renaming and subfolder name generation by using first image from the first available download device. This was inadvertently disabled in an earlier beta.
Bug fix: make default download subfolder YYYY/YYYYMMDD again. It was inadvertently set to DDMMYYYY/YYYYMMDD in beta 6.
Bug fix: don’t change download button label to “pause” when “Start downloading on program startup” is set to true.
Bug fix: implement code to warn / give error about missing backup devices.
Bug fix: reset progress bar after completion of successful download.
Fix bug #317404 when clearing completed downloads.
Added serial number metadata option for select Nikon, Canon, Olympus, Fuji, Panasonic, and Kodak cameras.
Added shutter count metadata option for select Nikon cameras, e.g. Nikon D300, D3 etc.
Add owner name metadata option for select Canon cameras, e.g. 5D Mk II etc.
Add YYYY-MM-DD and YY-MM-DD options in date time renaming, suggested by Andreas F.X. Siegert and Paul Gear.
Fix bug #352242 where image has no metadata.
Handle images with corrupt metadata more gracefully.
First Ubuntu package.
Rename tarball package to suit package name.
Updated README.
Make file renaming thread safe, fixing a long-standing (if difficult to activate) bug.
Implement add unique identifier when file name is not unique.
Added “Report a Problem”, “Get Help Online”, “Make a Donation” to Help menu.
Implemented “Clear completed downloads” menu item.
Download images in order they were taken (checked by time they modified).
Fixed bug where choosing text as the first item in a download subfolder caused a crash.
Fixed bug where date and time choices based on when image is downloaded caused a crash.
Initial code to show error message when image renaming preferences have an error.
Fixed bug where some invalid preferences were not being caught.
Run default python, not one specified in env, as per recommendations in Debian Python Policy.
Remove initial period from filename extension when generating a subfolder name (or else the folder will be hidden).
Check to see if metadata is essential to generate image names is now more robust.
Remove list control from preferences, reverting to normal tabbed preferences, as the window was becoming too wide.
Show notifications via libnotify.
Error and warning icons can now be clicked on to open log window.
Finally, last but certainly not least–implemented sequence number and sequence letter generation:
session sequence number
sequence letter
Coming soon:
downloads today sequence number
subfolder sequence number
stored sequence number
Fixed extremely annoying bug where memory cards could not be unmounted.
Made sample image selection for preferences more robust.
Added license details to about dialog.
Fix bug where image rename preferences entry boxes vertically expanded, looking very ugly indeed.
Wrap new filename in image rename preferences when it becomes too long.
Make default download folder selection more robust.
Remove sequence number and sequence letter from list of choices for image rename (not yet implemented).
Bug #314825: fix by not calling gnomevfs.get_local_path_from_uri() unless strictly necessary.
Implement auto download on device insertion, and auto download on program startup.
Increase default width of preferences dialog box.
Add vertical scrollbar to image rename preferences.
Fixes for bugs #313463 & #313462.
Bug #314284: Implement backup functionality.
Bug #314285: Insert debugging code to help determine the cause of this bug.
Bug #313398: Fix bug where application needed to be restarted for new preferences to take effect.
Added setup.py installer.
Updated metadata code to reflect changes in pyexiv library.
Pyexiv 0.1.2.