[Digikam-users] BUG? move to album / overwrite destination problem

[Peter Albrecht]

Hello John,

digiKam stores hash-keys for each picture in its database.
So it should be able to detect picture movement outside of
digiKam.

Another (safer) way would be to store the ratings _in_ the
jpg-file.

 "Settings" -> "Configure digiKam" -> "Metadata" ->
"Behaviour" -> [x] "Save image ratings in metadata embedded
in files"

In this case you can always start "read metadata from
image", to read them back in the digiKam database. But
digiKam should recognize those metadata in the files
automatically.

Regards,
     Peter

On 15.05.2012 01:25, John Stumbles wrote:
> I have an album containing pictures, and a sub-directory
> containing a sub-set of those pictures, plus some modified
> versions. I've rated the images in the sub-directory and now
> I want to put all pictures from the sub-directory into the
> main album. I know this will involve clashes with pictures
> that already exist in the main album but I just want to
> overwrite those.
> 
> So I select all pictures in the subdirectory, right-click to
> 'move to album' and select the main album directory. DK
> throws up a warning that a 'File Already Exists' and I press
> the 'Overwrite' button but DK just pops up a warning window
> about the same file again ... and again and again. It seems
> to be broken :-(
> 
> Incidentally the duplicate files in the main album and the
> sub-directory are hard links, not copies.
> 
> I guess I can overwrite the files using other tools, gui or
> cli, but I want to do it with DK so it remembers the ratings
> I've applied to files in the subdir: I suspect that if I
> move them outside of DK it will just seem them as having
> vanished and forget the ratings I'd applied to them. (As a
> workaround maybe I can use some cli hacking to delete the
> duplicate copies in the main dir and then move sub-dir files.)
>