[Digikam-users] usage scenario - is this possible?

[Guillaume Castagnino]

Le samedi 4 août 2007, Tino Keitel a écrit :
> Hi folks,

Hi !

> [...]
> How can I manage the "raw" collection with the directory structure
> mentioned in 1. and the albums mentioned in 3.? Should I move the
> raw collection to the album directory, and handle 2 forks of the
> galliry (e.g. "raw" and "sorted") in digikam?

In such a situation, I personnaly would manage the directory structure 
with the "Albums" concept of digiKam, which exactly corresponds to the 
physical structure on the hard drive

But for the 3. I would not duplicate the pictures !
You have the "Tags" feature ("Stichworte" in German digiKam 
translation). It let you assignate one or more Tags to each picture of 
your collection (using the fourth right tab). So you can create a tag 
for each gallery you want.
Then you can use the third left tab to retrieve all pictures that share 
the same tag.
In fact it acts something like doing symlinks but with a far better 
ability to resolve reverse references.

But this will not let you do a simple rsync to your website : I cannot 
see an "export" function to export the list of pictures for example...

My 2 cents,
Guillaume


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