[Digikam-users] linking instead of copying

Yan Seiner yan at seiner.com
Fri Jan 4 15:25:58 GMT 2008


D. R. Evans wrote:
> D. R. Evans said the following at 12/27/2007 11:27 AM :
>   
>> Stupid question: is there some way to link photos instead of copying them?
>>
>> (I would like to have a bunch of what might be called virtual albums, so
>> that the same picture can appear in several albums without actually
>> occupying disk space with multiple copies)
>>     
>
> I guess I should take the silence as meaning "there is no way to do this"
> :-( One can always do it outside digikam I suppose,  but it just seems a
> mite clumsy to switch to konqueror for this one task.
>
>   Doc
>   

You can script digikam.  I'd bring up konq and use hardlinks. (Actually 
I'd most likely build an xdialog thingie to do that.)

--Yan



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