Looking for a software recomendation for FC3

[Arthur Pemberton]

Tim Holmes wrote:

>>>>A few questions:
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>>>>1) What camera do you have? (brand and model)
>>>>2) Do you have a flashcard reader installed?
>>>>3) Are you aiming to do this via console or with a GUI app?
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>>>[Tim Holmes wrote]
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>>>Arthur:
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>>>I have a Nikon D70 Camera, but prefer to use it in USB mass storage
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>>>due to speed considerations.
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>>>My Card Reader is a PCMCIA card reader that is easily read by the FC3
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>>>My preference would be to have a gui, but if the command line is easy
>>>and intuitive, and can do that too -- for example, I need to be able
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>>>do this while shooting a sporting event, as I routinely shoot 600+
>>>pictures in the course of one basketball game
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>>ok cool....
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>>... I'm assuming that you can download the picture directly from the
>>flashcard, or inderictly through camera as a usb drive?
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>>Also, what desktop environment are you using? (gnome or kde)
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>[Tim Holmes wrote] 
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>I am quite happy to download the pictures directly from the PCMCIA
>reader -- its fast
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>The big feature that I need is the ability to rename the pictures, and
>as autonomous as possible is better  - due to operator overload in
>shooting situations
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>I typically use Gnome, but I also have KDE installed on the system and
>im not opposed to using that
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I see you've stumbled upon gThumb as a solution. If that doesn't work 
out, I might suggest a 'low tech' solution of getting your cardreader to 
automount and then using a tool called kRename to use the files from the 
card reader, adn copy and rename them to a folder on your HDD.

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