[digiKam-users] Changing location of .dtrash directory

[Gilles Caulier]

Use right keyboard short-cut :

DEL => to the trash.
SHIFT+DEL => complete deletion.

Gilles Caulier

Le dim. 10 nov. 2019 à 19:07, Dougie Nisbet <dougie at katsura.uk> a écrit :

> 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> 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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