[digiKam-users] folder-structure

[Robert Reichel]

Hi,

this is my first contact with digiKam, and I didn't get one thing: is it right, that digiKam uses the original folder hierarchy of the macOS finder instead of importing all photos in a database or a proprietary folder system?

Thanks in forward, Robert

[Andrew Goodbody]

On 27/10/2020 20:22, Robert Reichel wrote:
> Hi,
> this is my first contact with digiKam, and I didn't get one thing: is it
> right, that digiKam uses the original folder hierarchy of the macOS
> finder instead of importing all photos in a database or a proprietary
> folder system?
> Thanks in forward, Robert

Yes digiKam albums are the same as the structure on the disk but it does
also use a database for storing information about your photos and tags,
most of which can also be written to the photos themselves or else
sidecar files.

Andrew

[Robert Reichel]

Great. Thanks, Andrew!

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On 27/10/2020 20:22, Robert Reichel wrote:

Hi,
this is my first contact with digiKam, and I didn't get one thing: is it
right, that digiKam uses the original folder hierarchy of the macOS
finder instead of importing all photos in a database or a proprietary
folder system?
Thanks in forward, Robert

Yes digiKam albums are the same as the structure on the disk but it does
also use a database for storing information about your photos and tags,
most of which can also be written to the photos themselves or else
sidecar files.

Andrew

[Chris Green]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 09:22:39PM +0100, Robert Reichel wrote:
>    Hi,
>
>    this is my first contact with digiKam, and I didn't get one thing: is
>    it right, that digiKam uses the original folder hierarchy of the macOS
>    finder instead of importing all photos in a database or a proprietary
>    folder system?
>
Yes, and that's one of my major reasons for using it! :-)

My computer OS has already got many ways of handling and organising
directories which have been developed and improved over many years so
why re-invent the wheel by doing it all over again, probably badly?

--
Chris Green