Download: Select Files and Formats and configure defaults

[RAYs3T]

Download of multiple files

So right now whenever you download a single picture, it will download all the files assosiated with this specific one.
This leads to the behavior of downloading a raw+jpeg when you click on the download button.
In firefox for example this gives you two pop-ups to save the file.

In the most situations you only need one type of image. You either want the raw to edit the picture or just the version displayed for whatever.

How about a dropdown?

What about adding a little drop down menu at the side of the button, where you can select what exact file you wish to download?

Make the default file type to download an option (later)

This also has great potential to be an option where the user could set its prefered download file type.
Tho I would NOT include this into this issue / PR. That might be something for later.

@lastzero If you're ok with that I would do the changes and throw it in a PR?

[lastzero]

Sorry for the wait! You are right, need to improve this. Selecting a smaller (resampled) size should be possible as well.

Adding a download dialog so that users may select specific file type(s) and size(s) seems necessary. However, this might complicate PhotoPrism for less experienced users as they'll feel unsure what to select.

[MrRaph]

It's the only feature missing in PhotoPrism that lead me to find another software... :(

[graciousgrey]

Good to know that this feature is important for some users. In the future we plan to have something like a public roadmap/feature voting, so that we gain insights which features are most wanted :)

[shoeper]

Sorry for the wait! You are right, need to improve this. Selecting a smaller (resampled) size should be possible as well.

Adding a download dialog so that users may select specific file type(s) and size(s) seems necessary. However, this might complicate PhotoPrism for less experienced users as they'll feel unsure what to select.

Maybe the proposed dropdown could contain very few carefully selected options (depending on object type and available formats) and for more there is an advanced option.

Another option could be to allow adding additional options in the user or system settings.

Too many options would also slow usage down for advanced users and many average users are even overwhelmed by any options. Probably it would be even better to have one default when clicking download without any further options. E.g. jpeg for images, gif (or mp4?) for moving pictures, mp4 for live pictures, mp4 for videos. Just click download and photoprism provides a good option.

[lastzero]

In a first step, downloads have been refactored:

• When clicking download in the photo viewer or context menu in search results, this will download all media files without sidecar files using their current file name by default. The file name schema can be configured in config/settings.yml - you may choose to let PhotoPrism generate a file name based on the photo title or use the original name (before importing and renaming).
• In addition you can download single files in the photo edit dialog > Files tab.
• When downloading albums, RAWs and sidecar files will be excluded. In addition, files will be named using their taken date and the photo title so that they can be viewed in the right order - even without special software that reads their metadata.