Digikam-users Digest, Vol 244, Issue 9

[Steve Franks]

*The most important thing to remember about digikam is that it doesn’t copy
your files. The album views shows the files in albums, which are the
folders on your hard drive. If you do anything to a file in digikam, your
file will be affected. e.g. Move, copy, rename and delete.*

> I want to migrate away from Lightroom, and Digikam looks like an
> > excellent choice.  *It is*.
> >
> > As I am learning, I would like to delete an album from the database, and
> > re-import it
> > (e.g. import using a template, etc.). digikam has templates, which can
> be applied while importing images, or at any time to images in the
> database. There is no need to import images twice. I use a template to add
> copyright data.
> >
> > Digikam does not seem to support that.
> > Delete seems to want to delete the files (or move it to trash). *You
> should think of digikam as a file manager with extra abilities. I think
> that the best way for you to proceed would be to just add more folders
> (albums) when you want to manage more of your collection. *
> >
> > Is the ability to delete from the database without deleting the files
> > still not available? *- I have never needed this, so I can’t comment*.
> >

When I swapped from Lightroom to digikam the biggest problem was redundant
keyword tags kept appearing. Make sure that you change Settings | Metadata
| Advanced settings to only import Lightroom Hierarchical tags. By default
it reads tags from ACDSEE, MediaPro and several other sources. I also
select digikam tags.
Digikam can also read/write .xmp sidecar files. The default is for their
file names to include the file type e.g. P10101.jpg.xmp. Tick the box for
compatibility with other programs if you are importing photos previously
managed with Lightroom.
Regards
Steve

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