[digiKam-users] Selecting an explicit set of files

[Remco Viëtor]

On samedi 15 janvier 2022 23:52:10 CET Alex Iliev wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Is it possible to select files by pasting/loading a set of file names? These
> may be in different albums/folders.
> 
> My underlying problem is that "update database from image metadata" takes
> really long for the whole collection, and I can help it out by telling it
> which images to update. But I haven't found a way to pass in that list of
> files to digikam.
> 
> Thanks!
> Alex
The only thing I can think of is through advanced search, if the files to be 
updated share some criterion (e.g. modification date).
Are you by any chance changing those files through an external program?