<div><div dir="auto">Not at a computer now to try it but -- have you considered symlinks from e.g. a single directory or a directory for each year into your camera-based folder structure? I suspect DigiKam might follow those symlinks.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Seems like DigiKam can't do natively what you are looking for. FWIW, my workflow starts by importing pics from multiple cameras into separate folders, renaming them to date/time/camera file name and then merging them into one folder. To me, the criteria "camera" is not first priority - the date/occasion is. Hence this defines the top of my folder structure.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 at 23:44, BensonBear <<a href="mailto:benson.bear@gmail.com">benson.bear@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">"You might want to take a look at Shotwell too"<br>
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One of us uses Linux, the other uses Windows,and there is no Shotwell for<br>
windows that I am aware of. There seems to be some kind of port, but it<br>
also seems way behind and of dubious quality.<br>
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"I believe it does not write anything to files metadata either but instead<br>
keeps all the information in its database but I am not 100% sure about<br>
that."<br>
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I have tried it a bit, it uses an sqlite database but also allows you to<br>
write the metadata to the photos.<br>
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I have no problem with writing the metadata to the photos, except for the<br>
fact that periods of rapid alteration in tagging could trigger lots of<br>
requirements for large scale backup. It is just information coded in the<br>
folder structure that I don't like, since it is easy to mess up externally<br>
and is not so flexible. No structure it imposes is natural really (e.g,<br>
hierarchy, not a dag, which is minimally what one needs (and using links for<br>
this is too tricky), and arbitrary date/time divisions).<br>
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I plan to every once in a while update metadata into the photos, but have<br>
the real metadata in the database (and also, backup this database into a<br>
simple format I can use grep and such on for many simple searches. I did<br>
this for shotwell's sqlite database, it is very easy to write a quick script<br>
to make a nicely formatted plain text file with just the information one<br>
needs).<br>
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