Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: Exclude sub directory from Digikam ..

[Dick Angus-4]

> On Sunday 11 January 2009 17:35:09 Dick Angus wrote:

> > > On Monday 22 December 2008 20:29:18 tulear wrote:

> > > > Is it possible to exclude some directory from a collection : I'm

> > > > using a Synology NAS to store my pictures and it provide also a tool

> > > > to create Web Album; the issue is that this tools create many folders

> > > > names @eaDir and it take to much time for Digikam to scan so many

> > > > folders ...

> > > >

> > > > So I'd want to tell Digikam to not consider any "@eaDir" folders, ...

> > > >

> > > > Thank you

> > >

> > > Hi there,

> > > no, it is not possible to prune a path below any top level collection.

> > > As far as I know this feature is not planned for in the future.

> > > I filter the paths I don't want to be seen in digiKam by putting a dot

> > > in front of them (hiding), that's a workaround.

> > >

> > > Gerhard

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> > Kubuntu 8.10, KDE 4.1.3, and Digikam 0.9.4(Using KDE 3.5.10) latest

> > versions from the repositories in all cases.

> >

> > I tried your technique of using dot files as I also want to hide a few

> > subdirectories. I had several photos with comments and tags in a few

> > sub-albums under an album for that given year. In Digikam I created a new

> > sub-album that I named Trash. I used Digikam to move a few photos to this

> > album. I didn't call it .Trash right away as I wanted to see it for the

> > move process and I wanted to keep comments and tags until I finally

> > dispose of the photos or find a way to rehabilitate them. I moved the

> > photos; comments, tags and all, to Trash and then renamed it .Trash. It

> > still shows up when I open Digikam. Obviously I did something wrong? Is

> > trying to use Digikam to preserve the comments and tags the issue?

>

> You probably renamed it from inside digiKam: it doesn't work that way,

> digiKam knows and keeps track. You have to add the dot outside of digikam.

>

> Gerhard

>

> > These images are all .png files so I can't store things in EXIF or IPTC

> > spaces, yet. These are a bunch of photos scanned from old 35mm slides.

> > Some did not scan well and I've since learned better scanning techniques.

> > I'd like to isolate these from the better photos until I can handle them.

> > It is awkward viewing them amongst the good photos as I tag and comment.

> > TIA.

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Great tip. I changed the process slightly so I created the new album in Digikam without the dot, moved the photos, closed Digikam, used Dolphin to change the sub-album name to include the dot, reopened Digikam and it was gone. I then tested by closing Digikam, removing the dot with Dolphin and reopening Digikam. The new sub-album showed up again and the comments and tags were preserved. Exactly what I wanted. Thanks.

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[Marcel Wiesweg]

> Great tip. I changed the process slightly so I created the new album in

> Digikam without the dot, moved the photos, closed Digikam, used Dolphin to

> change the sub-album name to include the dot, reopened Digikam and it was

> gone. I then tested by closing Digikam, removing the dot with Dolphin and

> reopening Digikam. The new sub-album showed up again and the comments and

> tags were preserved. Exactly what I wanted. Thanks.

Please make sure that you write your comments and tags to the file's metadata.

Removed files' information will be kept in the database for a certain time, but will finally be removed.

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On Monday 12 January 2009 17:36:09 Marcel Wiesweg wrote:

> > Great tip. I changed the process slightly so I created the new album in

> > Digikam without the dot, moved the photos, closed Digikam, used Dolphin

> > to change the sub-album name to include the dot, reopened Digikam and it

> > was gone. I then tested by closing Digikam, removing the dot with Dolphin

> > and reopening Digikam. The new sub-album showed up again and the comments

> > and tags were preserved. Exactly what I wanted. Thanks.

>

> Please make sure that you write your comments and tags to the file's

> metadata. Removed files' information will be kept in the database for a

> certain time, but will finally be removed.

A question on tags: I am interested to know if my (valuable) tagging of 8000 photos over the christmas break is reconstructable from my photo collection without digikam's database.

So, is the entire hierarchy for a tag written to file metadata, or just the leaf tag?

For example if I have a photo tagged as "People/Will", how is this represented?

What if the photo is "People" AND "People/Will"?

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[Marcel Wiesweg]

> A question on tags: I am interested to know if my (valuable) tagging of

> 8000 photos over the christmas break is reconstructable from my photo

> collection without digikam's database.

>

> So, is the entire hierarchy for a tag written to file metadata, or just the

> leaf tag?

>

> For example if I have a photo tagged as "People/Will", how is this

> represented?

>

> What if the photo is "People" AND "People/Will"?

This was always a bit problematic in the old times of digikam 0.9, but now we fully support XMP, and that means all is well:

- we have a private XMP namespace which contains the full tag paths (tag hierarchy)

- we write the tag name (leaf tag) to xmp.dc.subject, which supports full UTF-8

- we write the tag name (leaf tag) to Iptc keywords. This is restricted in length and charset, but most widely used.

Writing only the tag name to standardized fields complies better with Picasa etc.

Check that you have writing to metadata turned on in the setup!

Marcel

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