Welcome to the "Digikam-users" mailing list (TWO THINGS)

[NMH at STIC]

I'm a new and recent-user of DigiKam and am very impressed so far. A couple things I've experienced so far.


One, I cannot figure out how to find and browse and search recent discussions/topics on the list. Can someone please direct me. I tried the ARCHIVE button but I just see a long spreadsheet-like list of headers that are less than useful.
If I could search first, I wouldn't have to bother everyone about something that may have been answered hundreds of times already.


The second thing is the "deleting albums" feature in a collection procedure. Because I used a ROOT folder when setting up collections, I have a lot of document-like folders showing up as albums that don't have any photos. I thought I was safe deleting them.
I read the documentation that said the actual photos on the hard drive are not deleted.  The DigiKam albums are simply pointers.  Well, guess what? Actual files are deleted. I created a test folder with one image and one PDF. After the test folder populated on the collection albums, I deleted the TEST folder from the collection.  When checking the finder, that folder and those two items were GONE.


I found this in the documentation.
        "Albums deleted from digiKam are moved into the internal Trash Can. There is an option to change this behavior, so that delete will remove the Album and all of the photographs in it. 
        This behavior can be changed by first selecting Settings ‣ Configure digiKam… , then selecting the Miscellaneous page. At the top of this page are the settings that control what happens when a photograph is deleted."


I don't see any settings to change what is happening. Am I doing something wrong?

Please assist.

New user,


--Norm from Texas

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Sent: Monday, September 1, 2025 12:33:11 PM
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