<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yiv1110028307"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436161724458_105567"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436161724458_105566" style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:Helvetica Neue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:16px;"><div id="yiv1110028307yui_3_16_0_1_1436161724458_100105"><span id="yiv1110028307yui_3_16_0_1_1436161724458_100231">May be considered a semantic question.</span></div><div id="yiv1110028307yui_3_16_0_1_1436161724458_100134"><span id="yiv1110028307yui_3_16_0_1_1436161724458_100153">In *nix (remembering we have users of Redmonds filesystems as well) the filename is in the directory (inode), not the file itself. So changing the name doesn't touch the file or its contents. Moving it to another filesystem is another matter altogether.<br clear="none"></span></div><div id="yiv1110028307yui_3_16_0_1_1436161724458_100325"><span id="yiv1110028307yui_3_16_0_1_1436161724458_100153">Of more immediate concern to us here is that directory attributes allow you to not only rename but delete the file(s). You have the option on (some ?) Linux filesystems to make a file immutable - even root can't modify (or delete/rename) it if you do that .... ;-)</span></div><div id="yiv1110028307yui_3_16_0_1_1436161724458_100585"><span id="yiv1110028307yui_3_16_0_1_1436161724458_100153">A decent backup strategy might be easier to live with.</span></div><br clear="none"> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yiv1110028307yqt8485431342" id="yiv1110028307yqt22611"><blockquote id="yiv1110028307yui_3_16_0_1_1436161724458_100590" style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;margin-top:5px;padding-left:5px;"> <div id="yiv1110028307yui_3_16_0_1_1436161724458_100589" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:16px;"> <div id="yiv1110028307yui_3_16_0_1_1436161724458_100588" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:16px;"> <div dir="ltr" id="yiv1110028307yui_3_16_0_1_1436161724458_100587"> <hr id="yiv1110028307yui_3_16_0_1_1436161724458_100586" size="1"> <font id="yiv1110028307yui_3_16_0_1_1436161724458_100667" face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Alan Pater <alan.pater@gmail.com><br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <digikam-users@kde.org> <br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 10 July 2015, 9:02<br clear="none"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Digikam-users] Put Digikam in read-only mode<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <div class="yiv1110028307y_msg_container" id="yiv1110028307yui_3_16_0_1_1436161724458_100593"><br clear="none">If you can rename it, it's not really read-only is it?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Losing the ability to rename is not a loss if the goal is zero<br clear="none">modifications. The original file name is part of the original raw<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436161724458_105624" class="yiv1110028307qtdSeparateBR"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv1110028307yqt1369022456" id="yiv1110028307yqtfd79288"><br clear="none">image.<br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Digikam-users mailing list<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" id="yiv1110028307yui_3_16_0_1_1436161724458_100669" ymailto="mailto:Digikam-users@kde.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:Digikam-users@kde.org">Digikam-users@kde.org</a><br clear="none"><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436161724458_105628" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users">https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users</a><br clear="none"></div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></div></div></div></body></html>