[digiKam-users] Complete newb need help

[Gr8fulmomma h]

Thank you for your reply.

I'm a learner that learns by being shown/doing so having to read then
figure it out is very difficult for me.  I appreciate your patience.  I
love videos that are very in depth for that reason but I have not found any
yet that begin an intro to dk that aren't about getting started
installing.  I'm still searching and watching.

That said, if I'm correctly understanding I can to import my photos into
file explorer following my normal method (year folder -> month folder) then
digikam will find them and add to its database in that form.

What I am interested in is how to configure dk to be able to dump directly
there (skipping the file explorer step) and have it sort them into
year/month/day folders for me so I can tag them (which will be new for
me).  In the past I've had to choose to split a group of photos up into
multiple months such as vacation pics that overlap 2 months or to make a
special folder by event that is just placed in the year but not any month.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding how exactly it functions...it could be that it
all does go in the one folder in file explorer and rather than each
grouping being in a seperate folder (as above) and it's only a virtual
separation.  In that case how do I get it to seperate them in dk so I don't
10,000 pics in one folder without  any idea of what I'm looking at.

There are many other capabilities of dk I'd like to use but until I get
this I'm not able to proceed.



On Sat, Jul 31, 2021, 4:28 AM Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> wrote:

> digiKam Albums is the same as the folder structure on your hard drive. A
> collection in digiKam is therefore a higher-level folder in which images
> and
> sub-folders are located. So you don't necessarily have to import images,
> you
> can simply copy the images into your images folder, create subdirectories
> according to events or dates, as you like. digiKam will then find all
> images
> at startup if the digiKam collection points to this folder and will
> display
> the albums / folders and images after a while. digiKam does not move
> images
> into the database, but rather scans only the metadata of the images and
> adds
> them to the database.
>
> Maik
>
> Am Samstag, 31. Juli 2021, 07:58:57 CEST schrieb Gr8fulmomma h:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm completely new to Digikam and computers set up in general.  This is
> my
> > first time setting up a computer actually.
> >
> > I have a new computer that had zero photos on it yet.  I opened dk and
> told
> > it to import the photos.  It is importing them to a folder named digikam
> in
> > my "this pc" in the file explorer.  I think that maybe I was supposed to
> > import them from my card to a folder(s) under pictures then import to dk
> so
> > I don't have one huge, unorganized folder with tens of thousands of
> images
> > but maybe not.  Could someone please confirm If ALL of my photos just go
> in
> > one file or if I need to delete them and import into pictures then import
> > into digikam?
> >
> > It doesn't seem to cover it in the documentation and I didn't find it in
> > FAQ either.
> >
> >
> > Thank you for your help.
> >
> > Jenn
>
>
>
>
>
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