What are Categories for?

[Dmitri Popov-2]

Hello,

It's possible to assign categories to albums in digiKam. But it
doesn't seems to be possible to do anything useful with them (for
example, I can't sort albums by category). So what are they for? Am I
missing something?

Best,
Dmitri
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[Gilles Caulier-4]

Categories can be assigned to album. Look Album properties dialog for details.

On Advanced Search tool, you can query database to found album with a
specific category.

Gilles Caulier

2015-01-14 12:13 GMT+01:00 Dmitri Popov <[hidden email]>:

> Hello,
>
> It's possible to assign categories to albums in digiKam. But it
> doesn't seems to be possible to do anything useful with them (for
> example, I can't sort albums by category). So what are they for? Am I
> missing something?
>
> Best,
> Dmitri
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[Dmitri Popov-2]

It all makes sense now. :-) Thanks, Gilles!

Best,
Dmitri

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Gilles Caulier
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> Categories can be assigned to album. Look Album properties dialog for details.
>
> On Advanced Search tool, you can query database to found album with a
> specific category.
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> 2015-01-14 12:13 GMT+01:00 Dmitri Popov <[hidden email]>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> It's possible to assign categories to albums in digiKam. But it
>> doesn't seems to be possible to do anything useful with them (for
>> example, I can't sort albums by category). So what are they for? Am I
>> missing something?
>>
>> Best,
>> Dmitri
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[Gilles Caulier-4]

In main interface you can sort album by categories too, if i remember...

Gilles

2015-01-14 13:21 GMT+01:00 Dmitri Popov <[hidden email]>:

> It all makes sense now. :-) Thanks, Gilles!
>
> Best,
> Dmitri
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Gilles Caulier
> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Categories can be assigned to album. Look Album properties dialog for details.
>>
>> On Advanced Search tool, you can query database to found album with a
>> specific category.
>>
>> Gilles Caulier
>>
>> 2015-01-14 12:13 GMT+01:00 Dmitri Popov <[hidden email]>:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> It's possible to assign categories to albums in digiKam. But it
>>> doesn't seems to be possible to do anything useful with them (for
>>> example, I can't sort albums by category). So what are they for? Am I
>>> missing something?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Dmitri
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[Florian Hennig]

Hey guys!

I have a lot of pictures on different devices and I'm trying to sort and
manage them with digikam. Some of them are restored from a crashed
harddisk and thats why rhere are a lot duplicates of some pictures
spread on the several devices.
So I want to ask if it would be possible to add a feature in digikam
which checks if the images are duplicates directly in the importmodule
and makes it able to select non duplicates only.

I know somewhat C++ and Qt and I would be glad if I could help
implementing such a feature but I think I need some advices to get into
the digikam source.

Greetings from germany,

Flo
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Le 17/01/2015 15:13, Florian Hennig a écrit :

> Hey guys!
>
> I have a lot of pictures on different devices and I'm trying to sort and
> manage them with digikam. Some of them are restored from a crashed
> harddisk and thats why rhere are a lot duplicates of some pictures
> spread on the several devices.
> So I want to ask if it would be possible to add a feature in digikam
> which checks if the images are duplicates directly in the importmodule
> and makes it able to select non duplicates only.
>
> I know somewhat C++ and Qt and I would be glad if I could help
> implementing such a feature but I think I need some advices to get into
> the digikam source.

why do you need digikam to do so? digikam albums a simply kde folders,
any sync tool can do the job (even Dolphin)

jdd

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[Florian Hennig]

On 17.01.2015 15:28, jdd wrote:

> Le 17/01/2015 15:13, Florian Hennig a écrit :
>> Hey guys!
>>
>> I have a lot of pictures on different devices and I'm trying to sort and
>> manage them with digikam. Some of them are restored from a crashed
>> harddisk and thats why rhere are a lot duplicates of some pictures
>> spread on the several devices.
>> So I want to ask if it would be possible to add a feature in digikam
>> which checks if the images are duplicates directly in the importmodule
>> and makes it able to select non duplicates only.
>>
>> I know somewhat C++ and Qt and I would be glad if I could help
>> implementing such a feature but I think I need some advices to get into
>> the digikam source.
>
> why do you need digikam to do so? digikam albums a simply kde folders,
> any sync tool can do the job (even Dolphin)
>
> jdd
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With a normal sync tool the files are compared by a md5sum or something
like that. If I tagged and rated my pictures they are not equal by
bytes, but the images still can be the same. Thats why I really like the
"Find duplicates" function of digikam.

Is there a plugin for dolphin to check for duplicates by something
different than a checksum?

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Le 17/01/2015 15:39, Florian Hennig a écrit :

> With a normal sync tool the files are compared by a md5sum or something
> like that. If I tagged and rated my pictures they are not equal by
> bytes, but the images still can be the same. Thats why I really like the
> "Find duplicates" function of digikam.

they are primarily compared by filename :-)

jdd

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[Florian Hennig]

On 17.01.2015 15:49, jdd wrote:

> Le 17/01/2015 15:39, Florian Hennig a écrit :
>
>> With a normal sync tool the files are compared by a md5sum or something
>> like that. If I tagged and rated my pictures they are not equal by
>> bytes, but the images still can be the same. Thats why I really like the
>> "Find duplicates" function of digikam.
>
> they are primarily compared by filename :-)
>
> jdd
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Yeah thats not working too because the restored files have filenames
like f2152196776.jpg :)
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Le 17/01/2015 15:56, Florian Hennig a écrit :

> Yeah thats not working too because the restored files have filenames
> like f2152196776.jpg :)

oh... I already have had this from sd card restore.

are there metadatas? if so it could be possible to restore from metadata
data.

I sort my photos by date, this makes it not too hard to compare if I
found several copies. It's very often the case, because I keep photos on
the sd card as long as possible as supplementary backup.

it's even possible to rename files according to metadata

jdd

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