[Digikam-users] Put Digikam in read-only mode

[Wolfgang Mader]

On Thursday 09 July 2015 22:51:53 Johannes Kapune wrote:
> wenn dir deine Bilder wichtig sind mach vorher ein Backup, echtes ro
> gibt es nicht auf der Festplatte.
> 
> Johannes

Well, of course, there are backups, but still one can try to be careful with 
the working copy the data.

> 
> Am 09.07.2015 22:32, schrieb Wolfgang Mader:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > ultimately, I would like to be able to put Digikam in a read-only mode,
> > such that it is guaranteed, that my original files remain untouched. To
> > single exception would be deleting files.
> > 
> > I assume that raws (and jpgs, if no raws are taken in the first place) are
> > only touched to write metadata to them, if configured so. I have
> > configured to metadata to be read and written to XML sidecar only. Does
> > this setting lead to untouched originals already?
> > 
> >  From a more general point of view, I would like to know if Digikam opens
> >  files> 
> > r/w per se, or are files opened r/o and r/w is only used for operation
> > which need these permission.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Wolfgang
> > 
> > 
> > 
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