[Digikam-users] impact of restructuring collection, was: Re: Excluding directories from colection

[Boudewijn Kranendonk]

Hi Jan,

On Tuesday 21 October 2014 17:47:13 Jan Wolter wrote:
> you can exclude an folder from being displayed in digiKam when the 
> folders name starts with a dot. In your case, e.g.: ".myMountPoint"
Thanks for the tip.

Making the directory invisible in the filesystem defeats my purpose of mounting 
the directory inside the root of my collection. Now I think of it, I could 
exclude them by tagging them 'ftp' or 'published', and always filtering on 
'does not have tag "ftp"', even if it is some more work.

Any idea how restructuring the collection would impact those tags that are in 
database only? 
I guessed I'd have to add a new collection '/collection/1995' and move photos 
from collection '/collection' album '1995' into it, to let DigiKam track the 
tags associated with an image. When I tried it, it turned out I am not allowed 
to add a collection that is a directory contained within another collection.

Best regards,

Boudewijn