[digiKam-users] Issue with deleted images

[Sebastian Beer]

Maybe this conversation answers more of your questions:
http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/digiKam-users-Suggested-UX-improvement-Empty-trash-td4712992.html

Sebastian

Am Di., 23. Feb. 2021 um 11:43 Uhr schrieb Martin J. Evans <
martin.j.evans at gmail.com>:

> On 23/02/2021 10:24, Sebastian Beer wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> DigiKam has its own trash folder.
> Look into the following conversation:
> https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=292861
>
> Thank you but that doesn't appear to fully answer my question unless I am
> misreading it.
>
> I have an album at I:\shared\docs_and_scanned. This directory does contain
> a .dtrash folder with subfolders of "files" and "info".
>
> I cannot find an empty trash - like option in digiKam.
>
> So, to delete the trash am I expected to just delete all the files in the
> .dtrash folder manually in windows explorer? If I want to permanently
> delete these files from my drive is it ok to just delete the .dtrash folder
> when digiKam is not running or do I have to leave the directory structure
> intact and just delete the individual files? I sort of expected digiKam
> would have an inbuilt option to delete the files I'd moved to trash.
>
> Martin
>
>
> Am Di., 23. Feb. 2021 um 11:02 Uhr schrieb Martin J. Evans <
> martin.j.evans at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am running digiKam Version 7.1.0 on Windows 10.
>>
>> When I select an image and hit delete it asks me whether I want to move
>> the image to the waste bin and I select that.
>>
>> The images do not end up in the Windows Recycle Bin and I wondered where
>> they'd gone.
>>
>> On syncing my album with an external USB drive I see I have loads of
>> images in a .dtrash subfolder of the album. I realise I can probably just
>> delete the contents of the .dtrash folder but I thought there must be a
>> digiKam way of emptying the trash but I can't seem to find it.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Martin
>>
>
>
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