<div dir="auto">Thank you for your reply. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm a learner that learns by being shown/doing so having to read then figure it out is very difficult for me. I appreciate your patience. I love videos that are very in depth for that reason but I have not found any yet that begin an intro to dk that aren't about getting started installing. I'm still searching and watching. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That said, if I'm correctly understanding I can to import my photos into file explorer following my normal method (year folder -> month folder) then digikam will find them and add to its database in that form. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">What I am interested in is how to configure dk to be able to dump directly there (skipping the file explorer step) and have it sort them into year/month/day folders for me so I can tag them (which will be new for me). In the past I've had to choose to split a group of photos up into multiple months such as vacation pics that overlap 2 months or to make a special folder by event that is just placed in the year but not any month. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Maybe I'm misunderstanding how exactly it functions...it could be that it all does go in the one folder in file explorer and rather than each grouping being in a seperate folder (as above) and it's only a virtual separation. In that case how do I get it to seperate them in dk so I don't 10,000 pics in one folder without any idea of what I'm looking at.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There are many other capabilities of dk I'd like to use but until I get this I'm not able to proceed. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jul 31, 2021, 4:28 AM Maik Qualmann <<a href="mailto:metzpinguin@gmail.com">metzpinguin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">digiKam Albums is the same as the folder structure on your hard drive. A <br>
collection in digiKam is therefore a higher-level folder in which images and <br>
sub-folders are located. So you don't necessarily have to import images, you <br>
can simply copy the images into your images folder, create subdirectories <br>
according to events or dates, as you like. digiKam will then find all images <br>
at startup if the digiKam collection points to this folder and will display <br>
the albums / folders and images after a while. digiKam does not move images <br>
into the database, but rather scans only the metadata of the images and adds <br>
them to the database. <br>
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Maik<br>
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Am Samstag, 31. Juli 2021, 07:58:57 CEST schrieb Gr8fulmomma h:<br>
> Hi all,<br>
> <br>
> I'm completely new to Digikam and computers set up in general. This is my<br>
> first time setting up a computer actually.<br>
> <br>
> I have a new computer that had zero photos on it yet. I opened dk and told<br>
> it to import the photos. It is importing them to a folder named digikam in<br>
> my "this pc" in the file explorer. I think that maybe I was supposed to<br>
> import them from my card to a folder(s) under pictures then import to dk so<br>
> I don't have one huge, unorganized folder with tens of thousands of images<br>
> but maybe not. Could someone please confirm If ALL of my photos just go in<br>
> one file or if I need to delete them and import into pictures then import<br>
> into digikam?<br>
> <br>
> It doesn't seem to cover it in the documentation and I didn't find it in<br>
> FAQ either.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Thank you for your help.<br>
> <br>
> Jenn<br>
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