How Remove Items From DigiKam Without Deleting or Moving the Base File?

[plowmail2010 at gmail.com]

Re: "But why would you want to remove specific images from digikam's 
view..."

Gimp creates its own working files, to whose names it assigns the 
extension ".xcf". I wish to omit those from DigiKam's database.
Those files now have records in my DigiKam database, and I'd like to 
remove their records.

(Thanks for "chirurgy".  One likes to see traditions upheld...)

Bob

On 12/13/2023 4:16 AM, Remco Viëtor wrote:
> On mercredi 13 décembre 2023 09:59:41 CET Andrew Goodbody wrote:
>> On 13/12/2023 02:56,plowmail2010 at gmail.com  wrote:
>>> Windows 7
>>> DigiKam 8.2.0
>>>
>>> Is it possible to remove items from DigiKam's database without deleting
>>> or moving the base files (on disk/SSD)?
>> In general no, this is not possible. digikam is a view onto the file
>> system, so if it's in the file system below a collection root then it
>> will be visible. However you can set names of directories to be ignored.
>>
>> https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/collections_settings.html#igno
>> re-directories-from-your-collections
>>
>> Andrew
> You could probably remove items from the database using an external program
> (of course with a risk of database inconsistency). However, if for whatever
> reason digikam rescans the directory, the removed items will be added back to
> the database (as Andrew said, digikam's albums are a view of the directory
> structure).
>
> But why would you want to remove specific images from digikam's view, while
> keeping them in it's directory structure, mixed in with other images?
> There are ways to hide images through flags and filters, which do not require
> chirurgy on the database.
>
> The question sounds like OP wants to implement a solution in a way not
> supported by digikam. Perhaps state the problem?
>
> Remco
>
>
>
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