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

[Andrew Goodbody]

Hi Norm from Texas,

On 01/09/2025 19:06, NMH at STIC wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, no idea, I have never tried...

> 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.

Really don't do that. Point your collection(s) at folders that have 
images in them. Multiple collections are fine.

> I thought I was safe deleting them.

No, you are really not.

> I read the documentation that said the actual photos on the hard drive are not deleted.  The DigiKam albums are simply pointers.

I do not know where you read that but it is wrong. digikam gives you a 
view of your local file system. Changes you make in digikam directly 
affect the file system.

>  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.

Well done for checking your understanding of what might happen, that was 
a good move. Yes, that is the way digikam works. That is expected and 
normal behaviour for digikam.

> 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."

What is not really mentioned there is that other files that are not 
visible in digikam will also get deleted along with the album.

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

Yes, you are doing things wrong, you setup your collection as the root 
of the drive and then you tried to delete non-image albums. Do not do 
that, you are working directly with the file system. Deleting things 
will really delete them and the only option is whether they go to trash 
first or just disappear immediately.

Andrew

> Please assist.
> 
> New user,
> 
> 
> --Norm from Texas