How Do I Rename an Album ???

[Gilles Caulier-4]

Seriously... when you save a search result, it's saved in a virtual album, available in search folder view... It's implemented since... 5-10 years now...

Gilles Caulier

2017-02-05 16:47 GMT+01:00 Marie-Noëlle Augendre <[hidden email]>:

Well, if it would be possible to create virtual albums from search results, I would very much appreciate the feature.

Marie-Noëlle

2017-02-05 16:31 GMT+01:00 maderios <[hidden email]>:

On 02/05/2017 10:48 AM, Gilles Caulier wrote:

Album rename only work with Physical Album (folder in disk).
This can be improved in the future.

To rename Virtual Album, use contextual menu over tree-view, and use
properties option.

I understand now: 'virtual album' is  just a tag folder

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[Gilles Caulier-4]

yes, it's created 'virtually" in database. It do not exist in disk...

Gilles Caulier

2017-02-05 17:22 GMT+01:00 jdd <[hidden email]>:

Le 05/02/2017 à 17:10, maderios a écrit :

On 02/05/2017 04:56 PM, jdd wrote:

Le 05/02/2017 à 16:31, maderios a écrit :

I understand now: 'virtual album' is  just a tag folder

but how do you get a tag folder?

right click -> new tag

right click where. Creating a new tag do not create any folder!!

jdd

[Simon Frei]

All this discussion is spawned by people using different terms for the same thing or the same term for different things:
For a user there is just one kind of album: The physical albums displayed in the left sidebar. Internally we may call tags and searches albums too, in the UI this is not the case. So you can save searches, but these are just saved searches in the UI no matter how they are represented in the background. Virtual albums from the user perspective is a different thing: They want to have an album view like the current one, but without any representation on the disk (so not bound to a physical folder on disk).

On 05/02/17 17:32, Gilles Caulier wrote:

Seriously... when you save a search result, it's saved in a virtual album, available in search folder view... It's implemented since... 5-10 years now...

Gilles Caulier

2017-02-05 16:47 GMT+01:00 Marie-Noëlle Augendre <[hidden email]>:

Well, if it would be possible to create virtual albums from search results, I would very much appreciate the feature.

Marie-Noëlle

2017-02-05 16:31 GMT+01:00 maderios <[hidden email]>:

On 02/05/2017 10:48 AM, Gilles Caulier wrote:

Album rename only work with Physical Album (folder in disk).
This can be improved in the future.

To rename Virtual Album, use contextual menu over tree-view, and use
properties option.

I understand now: 'virtual album' is  just a tag folder

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Maderios

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Le 05/02/2017 à 17:33, Gilles Caulier a écrit :
> yes, it's created 'virtually" in database. It do not exist in disk...

?? you can't open one - it's not a folder neither than an album

I just tested that it you use the search and do it by tags, you get a
search that you can save. but you can as well remove it.

it's not listed in album view neither and can be deleted as well

so it's not the problem for the OP

jdd

[maderios]

On 02/05/2017 05:41 PM, jdd wrote:
> Le 05/02/2017 à 17:33, Gilles Caulier a écrit :
>> yes, it's created 'virtually" in database. It do not exist in disk...
>
> ?? you can't open one - it's not a folder neither than an album
it's a tags folder : we can create other tags inside it to group them.


>
> I just tested that it you use the search and do it by tags, you get a
> search that you can save. but you can as well remove it.
>
> it's not listed in album view neither and can be deleted as well
>
> so it's not the problem for the OP
>
> jdd


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Maderios

[AndriusWild]

The PDF manual is pretty amazing. It's a lot of pages but it is amazing 

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From: BuckSkin <[hidden email]>

Date: 2017-02-05 9:07 AM (GMT-07:00)

To: [hidden email]

Subject: Re: How Do I Rename an Album ???

I do not understand a lot of the terminology and have no idea what is meant
by "virtual album" or "tag album"

This is what I did:
Click settings > Configure DigiKam > Collections > Add Collection, at which
point a browse-for-folder window appeared; I selected the folder I wanted,
clicked "okay" in the little "this is how the folder name will display" box,
clicked "okay" at the bottom of the configure window, and the folder shows
up in the left side "albums" pane.

Currently, I have about twelve "albums", each being the entire contents of a
single folder that is on my hard-drive; later, I decided that it would be
better if two of these "albums" had different names that would better
describe what they were.

The only way I have found to accomplish this is to delete the "collection"
in settings>configure>collections and then enter the folder all over again,
being sure to give it the correct name this time around; that method works,
but is a whole lot of extra work/time.


DigiKam is a wonderful feature-filled program that could be the best there
is if good understandable instructions that explained every step in detail
from a complete beginner's point of view were available.
I very much appreciate DigiKam being made available for us to use.

Thanks for reading. 



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Le 05/02/2017 à 18:00, Andrey Goreev a écrit :
> The PDF manual is pretty amazing. It's a lot of pages but it is amazing
>

may be it's time to rtfm again. When you are an old software user, you
often miss what is new in new versions

thanks

https://www.digikam.org/docs

jdd

[tosca]

I agree ... but I don't see a date or a Digikam version anywhere. Which version does it reflect?

Marie-Noëlle

2017-02-05 18:03 GMT+01:00 jdd <[hidden email]>:

Le 05/02/2017 à 18:00, Andrey Goreev a écrit :

The PDF manual is pretty amazing. It's a lot of pages but it is amazing

may be it's time to rtfm again. When you are an old software user, you often miss what is new in new versions

thanks

https://www.digikam.org/docs

jdd

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Le 05/02/2017 à 18:41, Marie-Noëlle Augendre a écrit :
> I agree ... but I don't see a date or a Digikam version anywhere. Which
> version does it reflect?

on the manual? no idea. My Digikam is last appimage

jdd

[BuckSkin]

I thought I put the DigiKam version but I must not have; I am using version 5.2.0;I just downloaded the PDF manual a couple weeks ago.

[Andrew Goodbody]

On 05/02/17 16:07, BuckSkin wrote:

> This is what I did:
> Click settings > Configure DigiKam > Collections > Add Collection, at which
> point a browse-for-folder window appeared; I selected the folder I wanted,
> clicked "okay" in the little "this is how the folder name will display" box,
> clicked "okay" at the bottom of the configure window, and the folder shows
> up in the left side "albums" pane.
>
> Currently, I have about twelve "albums", each being the entire contents of a
> single folder that is on my hard-drive; later, I decided that it would be
> better if two of these "albums" had different names that would better
> describe what they were.
>
> The only way I have found to accomplish this is to delete the "collection"
> in settings>configure>collections and then enter the folder all over again,
> being sure to give it the correct name this time around; that method works,
> but is a whole lot of extra work/time.

OK, so what you are trying to do is to rename a Collection not an album.
You have added multiple Collections. Albums would be the directories one
level below these Collections.

Currently I see no way in digiKam to rename a Collection. Maybe you
should enter a wishlist item in the KDE bugzilla for this.

digiKam expects you to enter the top level directory of all your images
as a Collection. The individual directories below this top level
Collection are the albums. Yes its a bit weird. digiKam is a bit
schizophrenic in that it has large parts of its behaviour modelled on a
file manager with the image management parts layered on top. However
there are holes in the file manager part as you have discovered.

Andrew

[BuckSkin]

Thank you, Andrew.
It would be less confusing if DigiKam did not have so many names in different places that mean completely different things.

I enter these folders as "collections", then they show up in the left sidebar as "albums"

I guess the only way to rename these "collections" is to delete them in "configure" and re-enter them again with the name I want.

I just hope I don't get confused and delete the actual folders from my hard-drive.

Due to this discussion, I have been reading in the PDF manual and it says to right-click an album and choose "properties"

The only "albums" I see are the albums list in the left sidebar.

When I right-click any of these albums, which were "collections" when I entered them in "configure", I do not get a "properties" choice; the choices I get are "new", "open in file manager" and "open in terminal"

Thanks for reading.

Le 05/02/2017 à 20:12, BuckSkin a écrit :
> Thank you, Andrew.
> It would be less confusing if DigiKam did not have so many names in
> different places that mean completely different things.
>
> I enter these folders as "collections", then they show up in the left
> sidebar as "albums"

oh, I see. When right clicking a collection, it is said to be an album
in the top left of the windows. As this menu is different from the one
in real album, it should be possible to give it an other name (collection)

>
> I guess the only way to rename these "collections" is to delete them in
> "configure" and re-enter them again with the name I want.

it's a solution, but needs rescanning

>
> I just hope I don't get confused and delete the actual folders from my
> hard-drive.

no

> I get are "new", "open in file manager" and "open in terminal"
>

yes, same for me (digikam 5.0xx)

it may be possible to edit the sqlite base to change the name, but this
is not obvious

jdd

[Mick Sulley]

It's 5.2.0  (on page 19 there is a screenshot of the welcome screen.)

Looks good, I need to read it now!

Mick

On 05/02/17 17:41, Marie-Noëlle Augendre wrote:

I agree ... but I don't see a date or a Digikam version anywhere. Which version does it reflect?

Marie-Noëlle

2017-02-05 18:03 GMT+01:00 jdd <[hidden email]>:

Le 05/02/2017 à 18:00, Andrey Goreev a écrit :

The PDF manual is pretty amazing. It's a lot of pages but it is amazing

may be it's time to rtfm again. When you are an old software user, you often miss what is new in new versions

thanks

https://www.digikam.org/docs

jdd

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Rename a collection

I tested a way to change a collection name that worked.

it's pretty crude, so, please, make a backup copy of the .db files
before. It's as simple as copying them to an other folder

then open the digikam.db file with gvim

search for the collection name you want to change

overwrite the name as you want. Better not try to make it smaller (or
add spaces at the end) and not longer than the present one

save the file

it's done

at your own risks. It worked for me

jdd

[tosca]

Thanks. I was expecting some information on the introductory pages.

Will bring it with me on my next trip, so I'll have some chance to read it.

Marie-Noëlle

2017-02-05 23:11 GMT+01:00 Mick Sulley <[hidden email]>:

It's 5.2.0  (on page 19 there is a screenshot of the welcome screen.)

Looks good, I need to read it now!

Mick

On 05/02/17 17:41, Marie-Noëlle Augendre wrote:

I agree ... but I don't see a date or a Digikam version anywhere. Which version does it reflect?

Marie-Noëlle

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[BuckSkin]

BuckSkin wrote

I have a couple albums/collections that I would like to rename.
When I hi-lite the album in the left pane and open the "album" menu, the choice "rename" is greyed out and does nothing.
I have tried every possibility I could think of and still cannot rename these albums.
Using Windows 7; thanks for reading.

I figured out that I can rename collections/albums by going to Settings > Configure DigiKam > Collections; choose the collection you wish to rename, double-click it, and then you can rename it just as you would in any other program.

I hope this information is helpful to anyone else who might be needing to change the name of a collection/album.

Thanks for reading.