[digiKam-users] Issue with deleted images

[Martin J. Evans]

On 23/02/2021 10:48, Sebastian Beer wrote:
> Maybe this conversation answers more of your questions:
> http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/digiKam-users-Suggested-UX-improvement-Empty-trash-td4712992.html 
> <http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/digiKam-users-Suggested-UX-improvement-Empty-trash-td4712992.html>
>
> Sebastian

Cheers. That does answer my question.

I was looking for a empty trash type option and didn't realise that 
digiKam adds a "Wastebin" option to the tree view in album as I have 
hundreds of directories in this album.

So, just in case anyone else has this issue. To empty the wastebin, 
select the albums view, select the album, scroll down to the "Wastebin" 
item and select it, then you can see the deleted files in the right pane 
and a) undo the last action or b) restore any files you select c) 
permanently delete files.

You can also avoid putting deleted items in the wastebin and delete them 
permanently by holding shift whilst deleting.

I did search the manual for this information but could not find it 
searching with "trash" or "wastebin".

Thanks again Sabastian for the pointer.

Martin

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