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Hello,
When I go taking pictures, I sometimes use two cameras.
I export all of the pictures into one folder and rename them using digikam.
But the problem is that one pictures always seem to be divided against the cameras.
I would want digikam to see the pictures in stream of time the pictures were taken.
And also renaming to follow the same sequence.

I undertstand rapid downloader does this but I dont want to use it if i can do what I want with digikam.

Any ideas?

Can't you just change the view settings before you do your rename? Navigate to the folder/album with your images in Digikam, then select View menu > Sort Images > By Date. You'd also need to make sure the Sort Order under the same menu is set to ascending. I don't use the rename option often, though, and it's possible I'm misunderstanding your process, but it seems like that would work. Hope it helps!

--Steve

Your understanding is correct. I have tried what you suggested but it doesnt seem work well.
The pictures are sorted but in such a strange way that some just seem strange.
For example from one picture to the next it will just look like i was in two different places at the same time.
I will looking if there are other options to tick.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Is the time on one camera incorrect?

Hm, that's odd. I just did a quick test--copied a few images into a folder that were taken with three different cameras over the course of the past several years. I changed the sort order in Digikam to date ascending, then did a rename (sequential number) and changed the sort order to filename. It worked as expected. This was with less than ten images though; maybe if you're trying it with a larger set of images that would trigger some bug. A few things that might be worth checking:

1. Are the images in the correct order before the rename? This would help narrow down if the time on one camera is incorrect, as suggested above. If not, I would suspect date/time settings that aren't synced between the two cameras.
2. Has any post processing been done to the files? If so, perhaps the image editing software you're using isn't preserving the exif date/time stamp.
3. In the rename window, are the files in the correct order?

Thanks for your effort regarding this issue.

I found the cause of the problem. It was the time setting on the cameras. There was a time difference of about 7min. An old camera 5.5 years old and 2 years old.

I hardly use them together so never occurred for me to check the time on them.

Thanks once again.

Glad you figured it out!