[digiKam-users] Organize messy album

[Doru Stoica]

Hey Steve,

I'm thinking of organizing the folders because they are coming from
photorec recovery and don't have any sense how they are now. I'm pretty
sure that I will have a lot of duplicates also, I hope digikam will help me
out to sort them.The photos are not organized by digikam yet but I intend
to use it and I hope to setted up correctly from the beginning. So maybe it
could be a good idea to organize the folder first and then scan the new
structure with digikam. I would like to move after that the entire photo
gallery on the NAS and control everything remotely. I don't know how to
automate the folders sorting in digikam so I plan to give a try these days
to Rapid Photo Downloader to see how it works. Thanks for your feedback
Steve.

On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 6:30 PM Steve Franks <stevef48 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would leave the folders as they are, but if you do decide to rearrange
> them do it in Digikam. Using an external program will mean that Digikam
> would have to rescan your files to update its database.
> Why don't you use the Dates tab to view your pictures as you'd like to see
> tham and assign Tags to them to let you search for photos of a particular
> subject? If the photos already contain Tags (keywords, subject etc.) it's
> easy enough to import those into Digikam.
> Rearranging photos in folder by hand can lead to all sorts of problems. I
> speak from experience, as I'm still encountering duplicate images and
> misfiled photos from when I did that years ago.
> Steve
>
>>

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Kind regards,
Doru Iulian Stoica
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