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    <p><font size="2" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">The consensus
        is "No, DigiKam does not support fiddling with its database."</font></p>
    <p><font size="2" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Fair enough. 
        If I wish to change that, I can write my own DigiKam, which
        would take me about 110 years.<br>
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    <p><font size="2" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Bob</font></p>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/13/2023 3:59 AM, Andrew Goodbody
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      cite="mid:b0477dda-4d03-401b-9fe9-c8303c2e3dd8@elfringham.co.uk">On
      13/12/2023 02:56, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:plowmail2010@gmail.com">plowmail2010@gmail.com</a> wrote:
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      <blockquote type="cite">Windows 7
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        DigiKam 8.2.0
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        Is it possible to remove items from DigiKam's database without
        deleting or moving the base files (on disk/SSD)?
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      In general no, this is not possible. digikam is a view onto the
      file system, so if it's in the file system below a collection root
      then it will be visible. However you can set names of directories
      to be ignored.
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/collections_settings.html#ignore-directories-from-your-collections">https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/collections_settings.html#ignore-directories-from-your-collections</a>
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      Andrew
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