How can I archieve albums

[Anders Lund]

Hi,

I thought digikam had some functionality to archieve albums, or move them to a
different collection. How can I do that (I need to move a lot of albums, and
it is only possible to select one at a time).

Kindly,
Anders
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[Sjoerd-2]

On 10/05/2016 15:07, Anders Lund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I thought digikam had some functionality to archieve albums, or move
> them to a
> different collection. How can I do that (I need to move a lot of
> albums, and
> it is only possible to select one at a time).

You can do this with your normal filemanager (like dolphin with KDE)

Cheers,
Sjoerd
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[Anders Lund]

tirsdag den 10. maj 2016 15.11.40 CEST skrev Sjoerd:
> On 10/05/2016 15:07, Anders Lund wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I thought digikam had some functionality to archieve albums, or move
> > them to a
> > different collection. How can I do that (I need to move a lot of
> > albums, and
> > it is only possible to select one at a time).

> You can do this with your normal filemanager (like dolphin with KDE)

But then the digikam metadata is lost.

> Cheers,
> Sjoerd
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[Daniel Bauer-2]

Am 10.05.2016 um 20:32 schrieb Anders Lund:

> tirsdag den 10. maj 2016 15.11.40 CEST skrev Sjoerd:
>> On 10/05/2016 15:07, Anders Lund wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I thought digikam had some functionality to archieve albums, or move
>>> them to a
>>> different collection. How can I do that (I need to move a lot of
>>> albums, and
>>> it is only possible to select one at a time).
>
>> You can do this with your normal filemanager (like dolphin with KDE)
>
> But then the digikam metadata is lost.
>

I am not sure about this. For a very small test I just marked about then
photos with different stars and some with a color border in two
different subfolders of different folders and then copied them with one
drag/drop to a new folder in the digikam album tree using dolphin.

All the stars and borders are there in the newly created subfolders (the
copies). Quite intelligent :-)

While I did the copying in dolphin I had digikam running.

I have no idea if this works always and with any kind of meta data, but
for sure it is worth some trials...

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[Noeck]

You can do Image > Write metadata to file
for all images. Then you can copy/archive them and the metadata should
be preserved.

Cheers,
Joram
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[Anders Lund]

tirsdag den 10. maj 2016 21.42.51 CEST skrev Noeck:
> You can do Image > Write metadata to file
> for all images. Then you can copy/archive them and the metadata should
> be preserved.

Most of the images are RAW files, they do not support writing.  I think digikam
should support selecting more albums, or provide a function for archiving or
moving albums otherwise.

My solution so far was to move all albums for 2014 (about 25) into a single
album folder, and then move that to the other collection, but for 2015 I have
about 125 albums, so it's quite a job.

Kindly,
Anders


>
> Cheers,
> Joram
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[Felix Widmaier]

Hi Anders,

Am 10.05.2016, 21:49 Uhr, schrieb Anders Lund <[hidden email]>:
> tirsdag den 10. maj 2016 21.42.51 CEST skrev Noeck:
>> You can do Image > Write metadata to file
>> for all images. Then you can copy/archive them and the metadata should
>> be preserved.
>
> Most of the images are RAW files, they do not support writing.

That's not a problem, Digikam should create a sidecar file (*.xmp) for the  
metadata in this case.

Best,
Felix
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[Chris Green]

Noeck <[hidden email]> wrote:
> You can do Image > Write metadata to file
> for all images. Then you can copy/archive them and the metadata should
> be preserved.
>
Personally I think this should be the default.  Digikam should make it
very difficult to lose metadata and, if you are going to move images
about by any means other than using Digikam, keeping the metadate in
the inmage file is the only way to go.

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[Daniel Bauer-2]

Am 11.05.2016 um 09:27 schrieb [hidden email]:

> Noeck <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> You can do Image > Write metadata to file
>> for all images. Then you can copy/archive them and the metadata should
>> be preserved.
>>
> Personally I think this should be the default.  Digikam should make it
> very difficult to lose metadata and, if you are going to move images
> about by any means other than using Digikam, keeping the metadate in
> the inmage file is the only way to go.
>

it is good that this is *not* the default.

You can always switch it on, if you want, and it's great that digikam
supports this possibility. But making it default would bear the risk to
transmit information with the image not everybody wants to give. Also
adding meta data changes the file and I think any change to the file
*must* be intentionally triggered by the user and may in no way be
automatic or "default".


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Le 11/05/2016 16:41, Daniel Bauer a écrit :

> You can always switch it on, if you want, and it's great that digikam
> supports this possibility. But making it default would bear the risk to
> transmit information with the image not everybody wants to give. Also
> adding meta data changes the file and I think any change to the file
> *must* be intentionally triggered by the user and may in no way be
> automatic or "default".
>
>
already done as default by any camera

jdd
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[Daniel Bauer-2]

Am 11.05.2016 um 16:55 schrieb jdd:

> Le 11/05/2016 16:41, Daniel Bauer a écrit :
>
>> You can always switch it on, if you want, and it's great that digikam
>> supports this possibility. But making it default would bear the risk to
>> transmit information with the image not everybody wants to give. Also
>> adding meta data changes the file and I think any change to the file
>> *must* be intentionally triggered by the user and may in no way be
>> automatic or "default".
>>
>>
> already done as default by any camera
>
> jdd

shock! I did not know that my cameras put client names, phone numbers,
personal comments and keywords, ratings and the like into the image....


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