[Digikam-users] How to make a new top-level album?

[Geert Janssens]

On Friday 13 November 2009, Chris G wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:01:04PM +0100, jdd-gmane wrote:
> > Le 13/11/2009 20:06, Chris G a écrit :
> > > I have digikam 0.10.0.  Where is the "config menu", there's not one
> > > on my digikam.
> >
> > please, search a little !
> >
> > next to help, "config" then "configure digikam" (bottom)
> >
> > linux digikam... if under windows, it may be on the edit menu
>
> I'm on Ubuntu 9.04, I *think* that's Linux.  :-)
>
> Next to Help is Settings, is that what you mean?
>
> OK, so I go into Collections and try and add '2009', it refuses
> because I already have a 2009 in my /home/chris/pictures. !!!
>
> It *doesn't* do anything I couldn't do before in previous versions,
> all it does is allow a different way to the same place.
>
With the new configuration options, you can tell digikam to manage pictures in 
several directories that are not necesarily all in the same subdirectory. You 
could add for example a directory on a usb drive, or one on a network share, 
all next to one or more local paths. Not everybody keeps all of his/her 
pictures in one single root directory (with subdirectories).

So the new configuration *does* allow things that were not possbible before, 
although it may not be relevant for your use case.

> I have, in Local Collections a collection called 'pictures'.  I want
> to add other collections, I can't.
>
> It simply doesn't work as it seems it should.

I have seen this as well with digikam on Mandriva 2009.0. It was fixed in 
Mandriva 2009.1, so I didn't have to investigate.

If you start digikam from the command line, and then try to add a collection, 
do you get any error messages in the terminal ?
That was the case with me. These error messages may help the developers trace 
the problem.

Geert