[digiKam-users] Changing location of .dtrash directory

[Dougie Nisbet]

The Wastebasket is not something I use. For my workflow I'd ideally 
prefer not to have it at all and just delete photos and they're gone. 
I'm not against the Wastebasket but I'd prefer an option to relocate it 
or disable it.

Having said that, it's not a big problem. It's not really a problem at 
all. I delete files, then empty the Wastebin. There are lots of 
utilities that contaminate my file directories with thumbnail and trash 
folders. (Contaminate feels like an unnecessarily emotive word but I 
can't think of anything more neutral - I don't mean it to sound 
pejorative.) Geeqie, gthumb and thunar don't see to have options to have 
a separate location for thumbnails for instance, and when I'm deleting 
files from my trailcam SD card I need to take care not to end up with 
lots of mystery space usage. I try to maintain my image directory 
structure just as simple jpegs with the exif data written to the file. I 
find that most portable and easiest to backup. For backup I use rsync to 
write to a NAS drive and a separate server, remembering to use 
--exclude=/store/media/image/.dtrash and occasionally I rm -rf 
/store/media/image/.dtrash

I've come from Shotwell and there are still lots about digiKam that I 
need to study, such as versioning. I absolutely love how robust digiKam 
is in detecting file-system changes - this is amazingly useful, and not 
having to go through a formal 'import' process but just copying files to 
where I want them is great. If running rm -rf on my .dtrash directory 
occasionally is a bad thing to do, please let me know and I'll stop 
doing it.

Dougie

On 10/11/2019 07:05, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> .dtrash are an hidden subdirectory hosting all delete files for the 
> collection. I located to root place of the collection to be portable. 
> Ex : for removable media.
>
> Also, if you place .dtrash in another partition (removable or not), 
> deletion will take age to move files from a partition to a new one.
>
> So re-locate .dtrash is a bad idea...
>
> Best
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> Le sam. 9 nov. 2019 à 17:57, Dougie Nisbet <dougie at katsura.uk 
> <mailto:dougie at katsura.uk>> a écrit :
>
>     Is it possible to specify a different location for the .dtrash
>     directory? It seems to default to the top-level of the collections
>     directory. I'd prefer to have it somewhere else, like my home
>     directory.
>
>     Running Version 6.3.0 (digikam-6.3.0-x86-64.appimage) on Linux Debian.
>
>     I've had a look through all the Configure Digikam tabs and options
>     I can find but no luck.
>
>     Dougie
>

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