[Digikam-users] linking instead of copying

[Arnd Baecker]

Hi,

On Fri, 4 Jan 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"
> :-(

Well, sometimes it just means, that your mail has fallen through
the cracks ... ;-)

> One can always do it outside digikam I suppose,  but it just seems a
> mite clumsy to switch to konqueror for this one task.

To get virtual albums the concept of tags is the
way to go in digikam:
Just assign a tag to all images which should appear in a
virtual album under that name and access it via the "Tags"
sidebar on the left.

See the manual for further explanation
http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/using-kapp.html#using-mytagsview

Best, Arnd