[Digikam-users] More than one physical Album root?

[Gerhard Kulzer]

On Monday 04 February 2008 Konstantin Kletschke wrote:
> Hi Folks!
> 
> As I got a new Digital Kamera I am trying to get used to sort and manage
> my pictures with digikam. I like its concept of doing this very much,
> but I have one tiny question out there:
> 
> I wonder if it is possible (I suppose not now actually) to have not one
> but two physical Albums. While this looks like complicating stuff only
> for providing a useless Feature, this would solve one kind of problem:
> 
> There are images I would keep public while roswing and looking at them
> with family and firends, there are other kind of pictures I would keep
> private between me and my girlfriend. So these kind of pictures would
> reside on a separate dm-crypted partition...
> 
> Or is there any other tiny gimmick o overlooked which could solve such a
> scenario most comfortable?
> 
> Keep on, Kind REgards, 
> 
> Konsti
> 

Just another trick:
I have a private folder located within the digiKam Album tree. When I don't want to have these photos available, I just rename that folder to .privat (dot in front of it). It will then disappear from digikam's view, but the data remains in the database. When you rename it again to 'private', all information about it is there, no lengthy rereading of metadata. You have to do the renaming outside digikam, e.g. on a command line: mv private .private. That's it.

Gerhard

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