[digiKam-users] folder-structure

[Andrew Goodbody]

On 27/10/2020 20:22, Robert Reichel wrote:
> Hi,
> this is my first contact with digiKam, and I didn't get one thing: is it 
> right, that digiKam uses the original folder hierarchy of the macOS 
> finder instead of importing all photos in a database or a proprietary 
> folder system?
> Thanks in forward, Robert

Yes digiKam albums are the same as the structure on the disk but it does 
also use a database for storing information about your photos and tags, 
most of which can also be written to the photos themselves or else 
sidecar files.

Andrew