<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
</head>
<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Re: "But why would you
want to remove specific images from digikam's view..."</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Gimp creates its own
working files, to whose names it assigns the extension ".xcf".
I wish to omit those from DigiKam's database.<br>
Those files now have records in my DigiKam database, and I'd
like to remove their records.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">(Thanks for
"chirurgy". One likes to see traditions upheld...)</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Bob</font><font
size="2" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><br>
</font></p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/13/2023 4:16 AM, Remco Viëtor
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:6004704.lOV4Wx5bFT@manticore">
<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On mercredi 13 décembre 2023 09:59:41 CET Andrew Goodbody wrote:
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On 13/12/2023 02:56, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:plowmail2010@gmail.com">plowmail2010@gmail.com</a> wrote:
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Windows 7
DigiKam 8.2.0
Is it possible to remove items from DigiKam's database without deleting
or moving the base files (on disk/SSD)?
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">
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.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/collections_settings.html#igno">https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/collections_settings.html#igno</a>
re-directories-from-your-collections
Andrew
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">
You could probably remove items from the database using an external program
(of course with a risk of database inconsistency). However, if for whatever
reason digikam rescans the directory, the removed items will be added back to
the database (as Andrew said, digikam's albums are a view of the directory
structure).
But why would you want to remove specific images from digikam's view, while
keeping them in it's directory structure, mixed in with other images?
There are ways to hide images through flags and filters, which do not require
chirurgy on the database.
The question sounds like OP wants to implement a solution in a way not
supported by digikam. Perhaps state the problem?
Remco
</pre>
</blockquote>
</body>
</html>