[digiKam-users] Hide empty folders in collections

[Maik Qualmann]

In the digiKam Setup under Database-> Ignored Folders it is possible to 
specify a list of folders to ignore. Note, however, that all subfolders will 
then also be ignored.

Maik

Am Dienstag, 19. November 2019, 11:51:48 CET schrieb Stuart T Rogers:
> On 19/11/2019 10:29, Martin Burnicki wrote:
> > Remco Viëtor wrote:
> >> On lundi 18 novembre 2019 11:35:20 CET Dumelle, Timo (E+K) wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> 
> >>> Since you managed to get digikam start in about 1 - 2 minutes instead of
> >>> 3
> >>> minutes with a 350000 pics mysql database, I gave it another try!
> >>> 
> >>> I added a collection which basically is a folder on a share where word,
> >>> excel, pdf, pictures and movies are dumped into project related
> >>> subfolders
> >>> In this collection there are many folders that don't contain digikam
> >>> related stuff, so the folders are "empty" for digikam
> >>> 
> >>> Is there an option to hide / ignore empty folders?
> >>> I think that would add an extra on performance and would help to reduce
> >>> confusion on my users
> >> 
> >> The only way I see for Digikam to decide a folder is "empty", is to check
> >> the folder contents, i.e. iterate over the files in the folder. That's
> >> what's happening now as well to check for new files. So a "hide empties"
> >> option will at best not add extra processing, and thus not help in
> >> start-up time.
> >> 
> >> It might still be worthwhile, in order to simplify the interface. Then
> >> again, *not* seeing folders you know are there can also be confusing, it
> >> all depends on the users. E.g. I know that the albums in Digikam
> >> represent directories on the disk, so not seeing some only because there
> >> are no images would be more confusing for me.
> > 
> > Agreed. Imagine you have a folder which is yet still empty, but you are
> > going to move some images there from within DK. How would you do that if
> > you don't see the empty folder?
> > 
> > I think this is more like a question how documents and images are being
> > managed. Probably it's easier to have a folder and subfolders with
> > images only, and a different folder with subfolders for other documents.
> > 
> > Martin
> 
> Having read through this thread I firmly believe that as Albums in
> digikam represent the directory structure this must ALWAYS display all
> folders in that structure whether containing digikam related data or
> not. Not displaying folders which are empty or have no image data will
> lead to problems and much confusion.
> 
> Stuart