[digiKam-users] Copying photos to a directory

Daniel Bauer linux at daniel-bauer.com
Thu Sep 30 12:33:59 BST 2021



Am 29.09.21 um 15:11 schrieb Scott Patterson:
> I was going through pictures to send to a friend the other day and was 
> surprised that simply dragging them from the main window to an O/S 
> folder window for a USB drive actually moved the files instead of 
> copying them. It seems like this should be a copy instead of a move as 
> I'm not sure when you would actually want to move photos like this. For 
> reference, when I do this is Mac Photos, it is simply a copy, not move.
> 
> If this action is intended, then what is a good way to go through 
> pictures and copying them to a USB drive, one by one?
> 
> Thanks in advance.

I don't see this behavior with drag and drop, but I'm on Linux.
Alternatively you can select the images in digikam, right click in one 
and chose "copy" and then paste them to the other window.
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