[Digikam-users] Folders, albums and collections

[Agustin Lobo]

If I have a directory named FOTOS with a subdirectory named 20130523,
do I get one Album and one
sub-album or just 2 albums at the same level?
Thanks

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 7:35 PM, Andrew Goodbody <ajg02 at elfringham.co.uk> wrote:
> Albums are just directories. Collections are sets of directories. Nothing is
> copied into the db except metadata. Thumbnails are created and stored in a
> separate db. You pretty much just get a view of the filesystem. If you move
> things around in digikam, they are moved around in the filesystem.
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On 16/06/15 16:04, Agustin Lobo wrote:
>>
>> I'm a bit confused by the relationships between the concepts
>> of folder, album and collection in Digikam.  For example,
>> if I have my pictures in folders in an external drive,
>> would each folder become an Album in Digikam? Would sub-folders
>> become sub-albums?
>> Are the pictures actually copied to the albums? Or do the pictures
>> remain in their original folders and just meta-data and thumbnails
>> are integrated in the db?
>> And what's a collection? Just a set of folders?
>>
>> All this is not clear in the manual and it is important before the
>> beginner user
>> decides the structure of its DB.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Agus
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