[Digikam-users] Is there really no easy way to select some images and export them?

[N Fuller]

I also download from my camera into a "temporary" album I call "Unsorted".  I name and edit the pictures there, then copy them into two or more other albums - To Back-up, whatever subject I want them in, Pictures to Print, etc.  The aim is to have the Unsorted album empty or very small, but since all are albums, I can easily copy, print, back up to a thumb drive etc. from any of them.  I use my (Dolphin) file manager to do this, dragging or cut and paste-ing, which works, though sometimes digikam or Dolphin balks at copying too many at a time.
Is there a separate entity that is a "temporary" album?

Nancy, Ubuntu 9.0, digikam 1.0.0-beta 5  

Chris G wrote:
> Further to my recent questions about Export etc. is it *really* as
> difficult as it seems to select some images from an album (but not the
> whole album) and export them somewhere?
>
> It feels like this should be something easy to do that everyone would
> want to do but it would seem not, am I in a minority of one for
> wanting to do this?
>
> For example I guite frequently I upload a 'chipful' of images into
> digikam and place them in a temporary directory before sorting them
> out into their final album resting place.  Family and friends then ask
> "can we see the latest pictures of xyz please" and so I want to select
> those pictures from the temporary area in digikam and export them -
> not possible!  The only way to do it seems to be to create yet another
> temporary album in digikam, copy the pictures to there and then export
> them. 
>
> I love digikam in general but it has a few little quirks, the other
> one for me being the inability to sort albums by date.
>
>