<div dir="auto">Digikam is not my first photo organization app, but hopefully the last... But just in case, I've kept my old school organization structure on disk. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">First, I've got an incoming folder on my desktop where I move everything off my camera and phone. I face tag, edit, etc. in incoming, then move out to long term storage. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Long term storage is broken into "mine" and "others" at top level. Others being photos saved from other people, scans of old photos I didn't shoot, etc</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Beneath both of those I have folders for years.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Within each year, I have flat folders named as yyyy-mm-dd-description(sortable)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I found having subdirs for mm and dd was too much. Maybe if I took more photos I'd find it useful. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Oh and I use like 2022-10-xx-misc as catch all for random cellphone pics in that month which don't arise from a shoot or event. Otherwise description is the event name. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I've found this to be a good workflow. All photos go into digikam via the incoming folder and then I move the photos from within the app... never via the file system. Gives me one place to dump everything after vacation, for example... And then over coffee on Saturday morning I'll go in and process the photos. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So like:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Desktop</div><div dir="auto"> Incoming</div><div dir="auto">Pictures</div><div dir="auto"> Mine</div><div dir="auto"> 2022</div><div dir="auto"> 2022-10-17-BirthdayParty</div><div dir="auto"> 2022-10-xx-Misc</div><div dir="auto"> Etc</div><div dir="auto"> Others</div><div dir="auto"> 2022</div><div dir="auto"> Etc. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 17, 2022, 7:00 AM <<a href="mailto:digikam-users-request@kde.org">digikam-users-request@kde.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send Digikam-users mailing list submissions to<br>
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1. Re: Very long processing to process 200 photos (Maik Qualmann)<br>
2. high-level photo organization (Tyler Smith)<br>
3. Re: high-level photo organization (Sheridan Price)<br>
4. Re: high-level photo organization (Antti Ahonen)<br>
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Message: 1<br>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2022 17:49:21 +0200<br>
From: Maik Qualmann <<a href="mailto:metzpinguin@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">metzpinguin@gmail.com</a>><br>
To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the<br>
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Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] Very long processing to process 200<br>
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Longer than 48 hours for reading the metadata of only 200 images - hard to <br>
believe.<br>
A test here with SQLite database (on HDD not SSD) and 500 images measured 15 <br>
seconds.<br>
On which platform are you using digiKam, what type of database are you using, <br>
where is the collection with the 200 images located, on a network drive?<br>
<br>
Maik<br>
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Am Sonntag, 16. Oktober 2022, 15:23:25 CEST schrieb <br>
<a href="mailto:herve.lebrouster@orange.fr" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">herve.lebrouster@orange.fr</a>:<br>
> Hello,<br>
> <br>
> I have 3 collections that contain 90,000 photos and a collection that I have<br>
> just added with 200 photos, I was told that I had to use the maintenance<br>
> function on the file concerned. What I do<br>
> <br>
> I launch the "DiGIKAm Maintenance" with the options<br>
> <br>
> - Albums: on 5 albums of the collection containing 200 images<br>
> <br>
> - Work on all cores (if possible)<br>
> <br>
> - Synchronize metadata and database: From image metadata to database<br>
> <br>
> It's been running for 48 hours and I'm still at 17%<br>
> <br>
> With version 7.7 it was long but it becomes endless to process the data of<br>
> 200 photos.<br>
> <br>
> Isn't there a faster method because it's really a pain, it looks like it's<br>
> working on all the photos<br>
> <br>
> Thank you for your help<br>
> <br>
> Cordially<br>
> <br>
> Herve Le Brouster<br>
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Message: 2<br>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2022 21:20:02 -0400<br>
From: "Tyler Smith" <<a href="mailto:tyler@plantarum.ca" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">tyler@plantarum.ca</a>><br>
To: <a href="mailto:digikam-users@kde.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">digikam-users@kde.org</a><br>
Subject: [digiKam-users] high-level photo organization<br>
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Hi,<br>
<br>
I've been doing a lot of work in Digikam over the past few weeks, and the many features available for organizing and tagging my photos. Now I wonder how experienced users take advantage of all it offers. <br>
<br>
Pre-Digikam, I stored my photos in nested folders by year, month, date, with the dates sometimes labelled by location or event. i.e.,<br>
<br>
2022<br>
10<br>
09<br>
10<br>
31-halloween<br>
<br>
Now with Digikam, it's trivially easy to view images by date without sorting them myself. So now I wonder, how do you store your images on file, and how do you approach tagging/rating/annotating? So many options, I'd like to hear about what workflows you find particularly useful.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Tyler<br>
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-- <br>
<a href="http://plantarum.ca" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">plantarum.ca</a><br>
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Message: 3<br>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2022 23:40:31 -0400<br>
From: Sheridan Price <<a href="mailto:sheridanmp@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">sheridanmp@gmail.com</a>><br>
To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the<br>
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Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] high-level photo organization<br>
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Because of the built in date functions I've found it more useful to store<br>
photos under descriptive folders as in:<br>
year then a sub folder having a name that is some description for that<br>
shoot. Hence I might have 2022/Experimental Farm/May. 2022/Experimental<br>
Farm/July.<br>
<br>
And why you might ask? Well I have found that mentally if I am looking for<br>
a particular photo or set of photos I can usually remember the year and<br>
event and hence can find it quickly in digikam by going directly to the<br>
folder - no search necessary. If I only know part of the info then I can do<br>
proper searches via the search tools and when displayed the folder path<br>
often helps jog my memory to help zero in quickly to the correct folder<br>
without having to actually consider each individual folder.<br>
<br>
This does not preclude using useful tags on each photo. That allows for<br>
real detailed and extensive searches. This just makes some quick searches<br>
quicker.<br>
<br>
Sher<br>
<br>
On Sun., Oct. 16, 2022, 9:20 p.m. Tyler Smith, <<a href="mailto:tyler@plantarum.ca" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">tyler@plantarum.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I've been doing a lot of work in Digikam over the past few weeks, and the<br>
> many features available for organizing and tagging my photos. Now I wonder<br>
> how experienced users take advantage of all it offers.<br>
><br>
> Pre-Digikam, I stored my photos in nested folders by year, month, date,<br>
> with the dates sometimes labelled by location or event. i.e.,<br>
><br>
> 2022<br>
> 10<br>
> 09<br>
> 10<br>
> 31-halloween<br>
><br>
> Now with Digikam, it's trivially easy to view images by date without<br>
> sorting them myself. So now I wonder, how do you store your images on file,<br>
> and how do you approach tagging/rating/annotating? So many options, I'd<br>
> like to hear about what workflows you find particularly useful.<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
><br>
> Tyler<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> <a href="http://plantarum.ca" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">plantarum.ca</a><br>
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Message: 4<br>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 12:52:28 +0300<br>
From: Antti Ahonen <<a href="mailto:aahonen@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">aahonen@gmail.com</a>><br>
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Personally I always arrange everything in year/month/day hierarchy. Perhaps<br>
not mandatory regarding Digikam use, but makes life easier with backups and<br>
stuff when the archive gets big.<br>
<br>
All information related to shoot, project, etc is added as metadata in<br>
files and sidecar files.<br>
<br>
That is how I try to manage with my files.<br>
<br>
-Antti<br>
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On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 6:41 AM Sheridan Price <<a href="mailto:sheridanmp@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">sheridanmp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> Because of the built in date functions I've found it more useful to store<br>
> photos under descriptive folders as in:<br>
> year then a sub folder having a name that is some description for that<br>
> shoot. Hence I might have 2022/Experimental Farm/May. 2022/Experimental<br>
> Farm/July.<br>
><br>
> And why you might ask? Well I have found that mentally if I am looking for<br>
> a particular photo or set of photos I can usually remember the year and<br>
> event and hence can find it quickly in digikam by going directly to the<br>
> folder - no search necessary. If I only know part of the info then I can do<br>
> proper searches via the search tools and when displayed the folder path<br>
> often helps jog my memory to help zero in quickly to the correct folder<br>
> without having to actually consider each individual folder.<br>
><br>
> This does not preclude using useful tags on each photo. That allows for<br>
> real detailed and extensive searches. This just makes some quick searches<br>
> quicker.<br>
><br>
> Sher<br>
><br>
> On Sun., Oct. 16, 2022, 9:20 p.m. Tyler Smith, <<a href="mailto:tyler@plantarum.ca" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">tyler@plantarum.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Hi,<br>
>><br>
>> I've been doing a lot of work in Digikam over the past few weeks, and the<br>
>> many features available for organizing and tagging my photos. Now I wonder<br>
>> how experienced users take advantage of all it offers.<br>
>><br>
>> Pre-Digikam, I stored my photos in nested folders by year, month, date,<br>
>> with the dates sometimes labelled by location or event. i.e.,<br>
>><br>
>> 2022<br>
>> 10<br>
>> 09<br>
>> 10<br>
>> 31-halloween<br>
>><br>
>> Now with Digikam, it's trivially easy to view images by date without<br>
>> sorting them myself. So now I wonder, how do you store your images on file,<br>
>> and how do you approach tagging/rating/annotating? So many options, I'd<br>
>> like to hear about what workflows you find particularly useful.<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks,<br>
>><br>
>> Tyler<br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>> <a href="http://plantarum.ca" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">plantarum.ca</a><br>
>><br>
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