[digiKam-users] Issue with deleted images

[Martin J. Evans-2]

Hi,

I am running digiKam Version 7.1.0 on Windows 10.

When I select an image and hit delete it asks me whether I want to move the image to the waste bin and I select that.

The images do not end up in the Windows Recycle Bin and I wondered where they'd gone.

On syncing my album with an external USB drive I see I have loads of images in a .dtrash subfolder of the album. I realise I can probably just delete the contents of the .dtrash folder but I thought there must be a digiKam way of emptying the trash but I can't seem to find it.

Any ideas?

Martin

[Sebastian Beer]

Hello,

DigiKam has its own trash folder.

Look into the following conversation:

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=292861

Sebastian

Am Di., 23. Feb. 2021 um 11:02 Uhr schrieb Martin J. Evans <[hidden email]>:

Hi,

I am running digiKam Version 7.1.0 on Windows 10.

When I select an image and hit delete it asks me whether I want to move the image to the waste bin and I select that.

The images do not end up in the Windows Recycle Bin and I wondered where they'd gone.

On syncing my album with an external USB drive I see I have loads of images in a .dtrash subfolder of the album. I realise I can probably just delete the contents of the .dtrash folder but I thought there must be a digiKam way of emptying the trash but I can't seem to find it.

Any ideas?

Martin

[Martin J. Evans-2]

On 23/02/2021 10:24, Sebastian Beer wrote:

Hello,

DigiKam has its own trash folder.

Look into the following conversation:

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=292861

Thank you but that doesn't appear to fully answer my question unless I am misreading it.

I have an album at I:\shared\docs_and_scanned. This directory does contain a .dtrash folder with subfolders of "files" and "info".

I cannot find an empty trash - like option in digiKam.

So, to delete the trash am I expected to just delete all the files in the .dtrash folder manually in windows explorer? If I want to permanently delete these files from my drive is it ok to just delete the .dtrash folder when digiKam is not running or do I have to leave the directory structure intact and just delete the individual files? I sort of expected digiKam would have an inbuilt option to delete the files I'd moved to trash.

Martin

Am Di., 23. Feb. 2021 um 11:02 Uhr schrieb Martin J. Evans <[hidden email]>:

Hi,

I am running digiKam Version 7.1.0 on Windows 10.

When I select an image and hit delete it asks me whether I want to move the image to the waste bin and I select that.

The images do not end up in the Windows Recycle Bin and I wondered where they'd gone.

On syncing my album with an external USB drive I see I have loads of images in a .dtrash subfolder of the album. I realise I can probably just delete the contents of the .dtrash folder but I thought there must be a digiKam way of emptying the trash but I can't seem to find it.

Any ideas?

Martin

[Sebastian Beer]

Maybe this conversation answers more of your questions:

http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/digiKam-users-Suggested-UX-improvement-Empty-trash-td4712992.html

Sebastian

Am Di., 23. Feb. 2021 um 11:43 Uhr schrieb Martin J. Evans <[hidden email]>:

On 23/02/2021 10:24, Sebastian Beer wrote:

Hello,

DigiKam has its own trash folder.

Look into the following conversation:

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=292861

Thank you but that doesn't appear to fully answer my question unless I am misreading it.

I have an album at I:\shared\docs_and_scanned. This directory does contain a .dtrash folder with subfolders of "files" and "info".

I cannot find an empty trash - like option in digiKam.

So, to delete the trash am I expected to just delete all the files in the .dtrash folder manually in windows explorer? If I want to permanently delete these files from my drive is it ok to just delete the .dtrash folder when digiKam is not running or do I have to leave the directory structure intact and just delete the individual files? I sort of expected digiKam would have an inbuilt option to delete the files I'd moved to trash.

Martin

Am Di., 23. Feb. 2021 um 11:02 Uhr schrieb Martin J. Evans <[hidden email]>:

Hi,

I am running digiKam Version 7.1.0 on Windows 10.

When I select an image and hit delete it asks me whether I want to move the image to the waste bin and I select that.

The images do not end up in the Windows Recycle Bin and I wondered where they'd gone.

On syncing my album with an external USB drive I see I have loads of images in a .dtrash subfolder of the album. I realise I can probably just delete the contents of the .dtrash folder but I thought there must be a digiKam way of emptying the trash but I can't seem to find it.

Any ideas?

Martin

[Martin J. Evans-2]

On 23/02/2021 10:48, Sebastian Beer wrote:

Maybe this conversation answers more of your questions:

http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/digiKam-users-Suggested-UX-improvement-Empty-trash-td4712992.html

Sebastian

Cheers. That does answer my question.

I was looking for a empty trash type option and didn't realise that digiKam adds a "Wastebin" option to the tree view in album as I have hundreds of directories in this album.

So, just in case anyone else has this issue. To empty the wastebin, select the albums view, select the album, scroll down to the "Wastebin" item and select it, then you can see the deleted files in the right pane and a) undo the last action or b) restore any files you select c) permanently delete files.

You can also avoid putting deleted items in the wastebin and delete them permanently by holding shift whilst deleting.

I did search the manual for this information but could not find it searching with "trash" or "wastebin".

Thanks again Sabastian for the pointer.

Martin

Am Di., 23. Feb. 2021 um 11:43 Uhr schrieb Martin J. Evans <[hidden email]>:

On 23/02/2021 10:24, Sebastian Beer wrote:

Hello,

DigiKam has its own trash folder.

Look into the following conversation:

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=292861

Thank you but that doesn't appear to fully answer my question unless I am misreading it.

I have an album at I:\shared\docs_and_scanned. This directory does contain a .dtrash folder with subfolders of "files" and "info".

I cannot find an empty trash - like option in digiKam.

So, to delete the trash am I expected to just delete all the files in the .dtrash folder manually in windows explorer? If I want to permanently delete these files from my drive is it ok to just delete the .dtrash folder when digiKam is not running or do I have to leave the directory structure intact and just delete the individual files? I sort of expected digiKam would have an inbuilt option to delete the files I'd moved to trash.

Martin

Am Di., 23. Feb. 2021 um 11:02 Uhr schrieb Martin J. Evans <[hidden email]>:

Hi,

I am running digiKam Version 7.1.0 on Windows 10.

When I select an image and hit delete it asks me whether I want to move the image to the waste bin and I select that.

The images do not end up in the Windows Recycle Bin and I wondered where they'd gone.

On syncing my album with an external USB drive I see I have loads of images in a .dtrash subfolder of the album. I realise I can probably just delete the contents of the .dtrash folder but I thought there must be a digiKam way of emptying the trash but I can't seem to find it.

Any ideas?

Martin