[digiKam-users] Complete newb need help

[Gr8fulmomma h]

Here's  pics maybe if it's allowed... this to is a first for me

Originally I had 8kish pics here by the time dk found all of the pics on my
cellphone sd card.  It was every pic even the ones from the trashcan.
There was absolutely no separation. Image 652 .jpg

So I went to file explorer and moved pics from huge dk folder to this 347
.jpg

Then finally restarted dk and had this 443 .jpg

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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