How Do I Rename an Album ???

[BuckSkin]

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.

[Gilles Caulier-4]

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.

Gilles Caulier

2017-02-05 8:18 GMT+01:00 BuckSkin <[hidden email]>:

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.



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[Stuart T Rogers]

I did ask about this last year. I have two albums which are actually
directory names on disk. Both properties and rename are greyed out, one
shows as Graphics1 and the other as /home/stuart/Work/Graphics, so you
can see this uses the full path where as the other simply uses the
directory name. What I wanted to do was rename the one which uses the
full path to just use the final part of the directory name ie. Grpahics.

It makes no sense that they are named differently as the are both
directories in the Work folder. This is on Linux (obviously). How on
earth did this happen?

Stuart

On 05/02/17 09:48, 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.
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
>
> 2017-02-05 8:18 GMT+01:00 BuckSkin <[hidden email]
> <mailto:[hidden email]>>:
>
>     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.
>
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[maderios]

On 02/05/2017 08:18 AM, 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.
>
Hi
'Rename album' works for me.
I don't understand why it's not the same for you.
May be because you'using windows, not Linux?

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Le 05/02/2017 à 13:03, maderios a écrit :

> May be because you'using windows, not Linux?
>
permission problem?

jdd

[Gilles Caulier-4]

under Linux, if you choose a virtual Album, Album/Rename menu option is disable. It's not the case for a physical album. So the behavior is fully reproducible.

I suspect that BuckSkin try to use the menu option with a tag album.

Gilles Caulier

2017-02-05 13:03 GMT+01:00 maderios <[hidden email]>:

On 02/05/2017 08:18 AM, 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.

Hi
'Rename album' works for me.
I don't understand why it's not the same for you.
May be because you'using windows, not Linux?

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[Remco Viëtor]

On dimanche 5 février 2017 13:08:19 CET Gilles Caulier wrote:
(...)
>
> I suspect that BuckSkin try to use the menu option with a tag album.

And that's the problem: we can only "suspect" as there's very little actual
information in the original post...

Remco

Le 05/02/2017 à 13:08, Gilles Caulier a écrit :
> virtual Album
what's that?

apart from trash bin I don't see any way to make it

thanks
jdd

[Gilles Caulier-4]

Tag albums, search albums, etc... all are virtual, by the fact that they are not relevant of folders directly from disk. They groups items virtually in database.

Gilles Caulier

2017-02-05 14:24 GMT+01:00 jdd <[hidden email]>:

Le 05/02/2017 à 13:08, Gilles Caulier a écrit :

virtual Album

what's that?

apart from trash bin I don't see any way to make it

thanks
jdd

Le 05/02/2017 à 15:11, Gilles Caulier a écrit :
> Tag albums, search albums, etc... all are virtual, by the fact that they
> are not relevant of folders directly from disk. They groups items
> virtually in database.
>

may be, but I can't display this as album, or without any context menu,
may be I miss something

thanks
jdd

[tosca]

Same here: that's the first time I hear about virtual albums ... and I would be very interested to be able to use them.

Marie-Noëlle

2017-02-05 15:27 GMT+01:00 jdd <[hidden email]>:

Le 05/02/2017 à 15:11, Gilles Caulier a écrit :

Tag albums, search albums, etc... all are virtual, by the fact that they
are not relevant of folders directly from disk. They groups items
virtually in database.

may be, but I can't display this as album, or without any context menu, may be I miss something

thanks
jdd

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[maderios]

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 dont know what is a 'virtual album'in dk. In my case, when i create
album in DK with contextual menu on left side, i create a real directory.
???

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[maderios]

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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[tosca]

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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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?

jdd

[BuckSkin]

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.  

[maderios]

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


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[Remco Viëtor]

On dimanche 5 février 2017 16:47:43 CET Marie-Noëlle Augendre wrote:
> Well, if it would be possible to create virtual albums from search results,
> I would very much appreciate the feature.
>
As I understand those, it's just a matter of setting up a search (in the
"advanced search" dialog) and give the result set a name in "Save current
search". All of this in the Search tab, of course.

Remco

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

[maderios]

On 02/05/2017 05:22 PM, jdd wrote:

> 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!!
>

On a tag, then this tag is a folder !


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