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Rapid Photo Downloader 0.4.7 released with enhancements
Rapid Photo Downloader is a free open-source powerful, versatile item downloader (photo and video), permitting to the user to download/copy images and videos from photography-wise devices,--as well as using regular folders from within the desktop--, to one's computer via a hassle-free, intuitive and robust experience.
A definitely interesting aspect of Rapid Photo Downloader is its nature, namely, being created by a photographer and, therefore, presenting itself as a photographer-centric utility with accordingly-exposed features and support.
Essentially, Rapid Photo Downloader allows the user to copy/move items from (for example) storage media used by photography machines, in order to remove the manual confuse manner of browsing through the photography machine' media and manually picking items.
Among its features, Rapid Photo Downloader comes with:
- auto-detection of camera-specific media via the Auto Detect button and exposing of contained items
- ability to specify automatic file renaming with tweakable text (editable), date and time, filename, metadata, job code, sequences and real-time previews of to-be-generated item names
- support to simultaneously download photos and images from multiple devices
- optimized manner of rapidly downloading items
- in-depth configuration options
Launching Rapid Photo Downloader, the user is to notice its elegant look centering clarity and user-friendliness, main window divided in three main areas: the top area housing From and To, middle area with items populating it and bottom-area featuring details and the actual Download button.
Copying (for example) items from a location to the Pictures and Videos folders is as simple as:
- under
From, select the preferred source-like location (containing the about-to-be-copied items) - action that exposes the automatically-detected items on the dark middle-area
- retaining the
Copybutton checked and hitting the bottom-bar's Download, downloads images to thePicturesfolder and video-clips toVideos
The result: by hitting the Download button, Rapid Photo Downloader automatically divides the photos from videos and copies images to a specific location and video-clips to a different location.
The about-to-be-copied items are checkable, allowing the user to uncheck certain files, files then fully ignored by the copying process.
Similarly, the Move button is to be utilized for moving items from one location to another, action that removes the items from the source location and copies them to the new location (therefore, there is only one instance of the copied files).
Rapid Photo Downloader is a solid robust application, being able to successfully manage thousands of items, items properly exposed on its view, from where the user is able to act on them.
Rapid Photo Downloader has been updated to version 0.4.7, introducing several fixes, including enhancements related to its usability under Ubuntu 13.10, as well as removed crashes and ability to download audio files associated with photos generated by specific cameras (such as Canon 1D series).
How do we install Rapid Photo Downloader 0.4.7?
Add the following official PPA (Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 14.04)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dlynch3/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rapid-photo-downloader
In-depth step-by-step features, abilities and support are fully presented on http://www.damonlynch.net/rapid/documentation/
Worth mentioning
While Rapid Photo Downloader 0.4.7 removes a bug affecting Ubuntu 13.10 and Ubuntu 12.10, there still may be likely for users to encounter freezes using Rapid Photo Downloader 0.4.7 under Ubuntu 13.10, situation in which the user is advised to use Rapid Photo Downloader under Ubuntu 12.04 (version unaffected by the mentioned bug).
via: http://iloveubuntu.net/rapid-photo-downloader-047-released-enhancements