Version 0.4.3 ------------- 2012-01-07 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 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. Version 0.4.2 ------------- 2011-10-01 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 backup path for videos, in addition to photos - You can now manually specify a path specifically in which to backup videos. This can be the same as or different than the path in which to backup 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: Backup 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 backup 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. Version 0.4.1 ------------- 2011-05-19 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. Version 0.4.0 ------------- 2011-04-28 Features added since Release Candidate 1: * Allow multiple selection of files to check or uncheck for downloading. * Automation feature to delete downloaded files from a device. 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. Version 0.4.0 RC 1 ------------------ 2011-04-21 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. Version 0.4.0 beta 1 -------------------- 2011-04-10 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. Version 0.3.6 ------------- 2011-04-05 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. Version 0.4.0 alpha 4 --------------------- 2011-04-04 Fixed bug #750808: errorlog.ui not included in setup.py. Version 0.4.0 alpha 3 --------------------- 2011-04-04 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. Version 0.4.0 alpha 2 --------------------- 2011-03-31 Features added since alpha 1: * Sample file names and subfolders are now displayed in the preferences dialog window. * The option to add a unique identifier to a filename if a file with the same name already exists 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. Version 0.4.0 alpha 1 --------------------- 2011-03-24 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. Version 0.3.5 ------------- 2011-03-23 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. Version 0.3.4 ------------- 2010-12-31 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 Bokmal, Polish and Russian translations. Version 0.3.3 ------------- 2010-10-24 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 Bokmal and Portuguese translations. Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovak and Ukrainian translations. Version 0.3.2 ------------- 2010-09-12 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. Version 0.3.1 ------------- 2010-08-13 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. Version 0.3.0 ------------- 2010-07-10 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. Version 0.3.0 beta 6 -------------------- 2010-07-06 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. Version 0.3.0 beta 5 -------------------- 2010-07-04 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. Version 0.3.0 beta 4 -------------------- 2010-06-25 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. Version 0.3.0 beta 3 -------------------- 2010-06-23 First beta release of 0.3.0. Version 0.2.3 ------------- 2010-06-23 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. Version 0.2.2 ------------- 2010-06-06 Added Ukrainian translation by Sergiy Gavrylov. Bug fix: in systems where exiv2 is not installed, don't crash on startup. Version 0.2.1 ------------- 2010-06-05 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. Version 0.2.0 ------------- 2010-05-30 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. Version 0.1.3 ------------- 2010-01-22 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. Version 0.1.2 ------------- 2010-01-16 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 400. The same goes for the rest of the sequence values, including the Stored number sequence number. Images are detected by comparing filename, as well as the exif value for the date and time the image was created (including sub seconds when the camera records this value). This option will take effect regardless of whether the RAW and JPEG images are stored on different memory cards or the same memory card. Furthermore, if they are stored on separate memory cards, you can download from them simultaneously or one after the other. The only requirement is to download the images in the same session--in other words, for the feature to work, use as many memory cards as you need, but do not exit the program between downloads of the matching sets of images. 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. Version 0.1.1 ------------- 2010-01-05 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. Version 0.1.0 ------------- 2009-12-07 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. Version 0.1.0 beta 2 -------------------- 2009-11-22 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. Version 0.1.0 beta 1 -------------------- 2009-11-14 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. Version 0.0.10 -------------- 2009-06-05 Updated Russian translation by Sergei Sedov. Fixed bug #383028: program would crash when using an automatically configured backup device and gvfs. Version 0.0.9 ------------- 2009-06-02 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. Version 0.0.9 beta 4 -------------------- 2009-05-26 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. Version 0.0.9 beta 3 -------------------- 2009-05-25 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. Version 0.0.9 beta 2 -------------------- 2009-05-12 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. Version 0.0.8 ------------- 2009-05-01 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. Version 0.0.8 beta 7 -------------------- 2009-04-07 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. Version 0.0.8 beta 6 -------------------- 2009-03-31 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. Version 0.0.8 beta 5 -------------------- 2009-03-30 Reduce console output. Version 0.0.8 beta 4 -------------------- 2009-03-25 Updated Ubuntu package. Version 0.0.8 beta 3 -------------------- 2009-03-25 Updated Ubuntu package. Version 0.0.8 beta 2 -------------------- 2009-03-25 First Ubuntu package. Rename tarball package to suit package name. Updated README. Version 0.0.8 beta 1 -------------------- 2009-03-20 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 Version 0.0.7 ------------- 2009-01-13 Implemented option for automatic detection of Portal Storage Devices. Version 0.0.6 ------------- 2009-01-11 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. Version 0.0.5 ------------- 2009-01-09 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. Version 0.0.4 ------------- 2009-01-06 Bug #314284: Implement backup functionality. Bug #314285: Insert debugging code to help determine the cause of this bug. Version 0.0.3 ------------- 2009-01-03 Bug #313398: Fix bug where application needed to be restarted for new preferences to take effect. Added setup.py installer. Version 0.0.2 ------------- Dependencies: Pyexiv 0.1.2 Updated metadata code to reflect changes in pyexiv library. Version 0.0.1 ------------- Initial release.