Excluding directories from colection

[Boudewijn]

Dear list,

The root of my photo-directory is the root-album of DK. Now I mounted an FTP-
site in the root for easy access, to drag and drop photo's there for
publishing.

Of course, all photos I copy to FTP show up in DK as well, because the folder
is mounted inside the collection tree. I find it rather inconvienient to have
the same image displayed more than once.

I could rearange my collections, so that all the other directories under
photos/ are separate collections, thus excluding photos/ftp, but it would
easier if I could name some directories to exclude from the settings.

Is that possible?

Best regards,

Boudewijn
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[Jan Wolter]

Hello Boudewijn,

you can exclude an folder from being displayed in digiKam when the
folders name starts with a dot. In your case, e.g.: ".myMountPoint"

Best regards,
Jan

On 19.10.2014 22:53, Boudewijn Kranendonk wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> The root of my photo-directory is the root-album of DK. Now I mounted an FTP-
> site in the root for easy access, to drag and drop photo's there for
> publishing.
>
> Of course, all photos I copy to FTP show up in DK as well, because the folder
> is mounted inside the collection tree. I find it rather inconvienient to have
> the same image displayed more than once.
>
> I could rearange my collections, so that all the other directories under
> photos/ are separate collections, thus excluding photos/ftp, but it would
> easier if I could name some directories to exclude from the settings.
>
> Is that possible?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Boudewijn
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[Boudewijn]

Hi Jan,

On Tuesday 21 October 2014 17:47:13 Jan Wolter wrote:
> you can exclude an folder from being displayed in digiKam when the
> folders name starts with a dot. In your case, e.g.: ".myMountPoint"
Thanks for the tip.

Making the directory invisible in the filesystem defeats my purpose of mounting
the directory inside the root of my collection. Now I think of it, I could
exclude them by tagging them 'ftp' or 'published', and always filtering on
'does not have tag "ftp"', even if it is some more work.

Any idea how restructuring the collection would impact those tags that are in
database only?
I guessed I'd have to add a new collection '/collection/1995' and move photos
from collection '/collection' album '1995' into it, to let DigiKam track the
tags associated with an image. When I tried it, it turned out I am not allowed
to add a collection that is a directory contained within another collection.

Best regards,

Boudewijn
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