[digiKam-users] Changing location of .dtrash directory
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[digiKam-users] Changing location of .dtrash directory
 
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Is it possible to specify a different location for the .dtrash directory? It seems to default to the top-level of the collections directory. I'd prefer to have it somewhere else, like my home directory. Running Version 6.3.0 (digikam-6.3.0-x86-64.appimage) on Linux Debian.
I've had a look through all the Configure Digikam tabs and options I can find but no luck.
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Hi, Also, if you place .dtrash in another partition (removable or not), deletion will take age to move files from a partition to a new one. So re-locate .dtrash is a bad idea... Best Gilles Caulier Le sam. 9 nov. 2019 à 17:57, Dougie Nisbet <[hidden email]> a écrit :
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The Wastebasket is not something I use.
For my workflow I'd ideally prefer not to have it at all and just
delete photos and they're gone. I'm not against the Wastebasket
but I'd prefer an option to relocate it or disable it.
Having said that, it's not a big
problem. It's not really a problem at all. I delete files, then
empty the Wastebin. There are lots of utilities that contaminate
my file directories with thumbnail and trash folders. (Contaminate
feels like an unnecessarily emotive word but I can't think of
anything more neutral - I don't mean it to sound pejorative.)
Geeqie, gthumb and thunar don't see to have options to have a
separate location for thumbnails for instance, and when I'm
deleting files from my trailcam SD card I need to take care not to
end up with lots of mystery space usage. I try to maintain my
image directory structure just as simple jpegs with the exif data
written to the file. I find that most portable and easiest to
backup. For backup I use rsync to write to a NAS drive and a
separate server, remembering to use
--exclude=/store/media/image/.dtrash and occasionally I rm -rf
/store/media/image/.dtrash
I've come from Shotwell and there are
still lots about digiKam that I need to study, such as versioning.
I absolutely love how robust digiKam is in detecting file-system
changes - this is amazingly useful, and not having to go through a
formal 'import' process but just copying files to where I want
them is great. If running rm -rf on my .dtrash directory
occasionally is a bad thing to do, please let me know and I'll
stop doing it.
Dougie
On 10/11/2019 07:05, Gilles Caulier
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Use right keyboard short-cut : DEL => to the trash. SHIFT+DEL => complete deletion. Gilles Caulier Le dim. 10 nov. 2019 à 19:07, Dougie Nisbet <[hidden email]> a écrit :
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Le 10/11/2019 à 19:45, Gilles Caulier a écrit :
> Use right keyboard short-cut : > > DEL => to the trash. > SHIFT+DEL => complete deletion. > good to know :-) could it be possible to have the same behavior than in Dolphin, that is shift gives also deletion in the right menu? thanks jdd -- http://dodin.org |
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In reply to this post by Gilles Caulier-4
On 10/11/2019 18:45, Gilles Caulier
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Use right keyboard short-cut : Thanks, that's a useful hotkey combination. Dougie |
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In reply to this post by jdd@dodin.org
All is possible. Report this wish in bugzilla please... Gilles Caulier Le 10/11/2019 à 19:45, Gilles Caulier a écrit : |
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