Delete file or album without deleting files?

[Andrew Goodbody]

On 05/09/2025 21:53, Nadine Helkenn wrote:
> Albums can (should) be added through ‘Configuration -> Collections’.  To 
> remove an album choose the trashcan on the far right side of the screen 
> (for the specific collection/album). This will not delete the album from 
> your computer system, but DigiKam will not see it or register it as an 
> album. To re-add the album, just click on ‘Add Collection’.
> 
> Hope this helps you,
> 
> Nadine H

Hi Nadine,

Your answer is, I think, only partially correct and could also be quite 
confusing. You are talking about having a collection that is pointing at 
a single directory with no sub-directories. In that case you can remove 
the collection from digikam without it deleting the files on the hard 
disk. But that is not the most common way to organise files. eg I have a 
single collection that contains all the images that digikam manages and 
they exist in multiple levels of sub-directories under that collection 
which are shown by digikam as albums. If I use digikam to delete any of 
those albums that are sub-directories of the collection then all the 
files and the sub-directory will be deleted from the file system.

Andrew