Bug 105645 - impossible to not copy images in ~/Pictures
Summary: impossible to not copy images in ~/Pictures
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: digikam
Classification: Applications
Component: Database-Files (show other bugs)
Version: 0.7.2
Platform: Debian testing Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Digikam Developers
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Reported: 2005-05-14 07:15 UTC by Hubert Figuiere
Modified: 2017-07-25 19:22 UTC (History)
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Version Fixed In: 0.10.0


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Description Hubert Figuiere 2005-05-14 07:15:55 UTC
Version:           0.7.2 (using KDE KDE 3.4.0)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
OS:                Linux

I have all my pictures in /foo/mypictures

20GB of them.

But Digikam insist of copying them over. I find nowhere to have them kept there but in Digikam database....

Expected behaviour: see f-spot.
Comment 1 David Anderson 2005-05-14 08:40:57 UTC
Try a symlink.
Comment 2 Knut Johansson 2005-05-14 13:13:24 UTC
Why don't you just set digikam to use the correct directory?
Settings->configure digikam->albums
On the top of that page you have: Album Library Path
You can change that to whaterver you like.
Comment 3 Renchi Raju 2005-05-14 20:55:27 UTC
digikam works with a root album library path and all the folders need to be under that library path. You just need to tell digikam to use that folder path as the album library path (either at first run or through settings->configure digikam->album library path). The ~/Pictures which is provided as default is a just wild guess at the location of where the users store the pictures, but you don't have to stick to that.
Comment 4 Hubert Figuiere 2005-05-16 18:07:07 UTC
Comment 2
What if you have *several* directory in different places

Comment 3
What if that directory is read only because it is your photographies archives directory and you don't want some random program to change things in it ?

Reopening.
Comment 5 Renchi Raju 2005-05-16 18:19:25 UTC
> What if you have *several* directory in different places?

we don't currently support that, sorry. (common usage is to have all photos under one root folder. but then again, you can switch album library paths using the settings.)

> What if that directory is read only because it is your photographies archives 
> directory and you don't want some random program to change things in it ?

digiKam 0.7.x will work fine with readonly directories. though your tagging and comments won't work as a new database can't be create and/or written to. (for the tagging/comments to work, you only need the root folder path to be writeonly, the subdirs can have any permissions that you want).

i believe you are trying to force digikam to behave like f-spot. Unlike f-spot, digikam is also a image _file_ management program, i.e. you can copy/move/rename files/folders (with the previous constraint of root folder path). In addition it will ensure that you can do these operations without losing your tags, comments and other metadata.

as far as i can see your original bugreport is still invalid.
Comment 6 Tom Albers 2005-05-16 19:01:34 UTC
Op maandag 16 mei 2005 18:30, schreef Gerhard Kulzer:
> > ------- Additional Comments From renchi pooh tam uiuc edu  2005-05-16
> > 18:19 -------
> >
> > > What if you have *several* directory in different places?
> >
> > we don't currently support that, sorry. (common usage is to have all
> > photos under one root folder. but then again, you can switch album
> > library paths using the settings.)
>
> On top of it its so simple in Linux to mount a folder other places with
> mount --bind original_dir additional_mount
>
> Gerhard


Yes, and on top of that there is always showfoto which you can use...

Tom
Comment 7 Rinse De Vries 2005-05-17 12:17:25 UTC
about comment #3, wouldn't this be solved using symlinks to bind all the different directories in one tree?

Also, perhaps it is possible to let digiKam use the amaroK-way of using directories with albums.
amaroK let you choose 1 or more directories in different places to create the music collection..

Rinse
Comment 8 Rinse De Vries 2005-05-17 12:19:09 UTC
Hmm, i ment 'comment 3' of comment #4 :o)
Comment 9 Tom Albers 2005-06-21 19:59:34 UTC
no response, closing.
Comment 10 Tom Albers 2005-06-21 20:13:50 UTC
Reopening to merge to another whishlist item
Comment 11 Tom Albers 2005-06-21 20:14:07 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 107871 ***
Comment 12 Hubert Figuiere 2007-11-13 16:16:47 UTC
Bug 107871 has been fixed but in no way address this one.

I'm talking about "referencing images" in place.
Comment 13 caulier.gilles 2007-12-04 12:00:09 UTC
Since commits #733526, digiKam for KDE4 support multiple roots albums path in Setup.

http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/digikamKDE4_14.png

Duing important changes in datatase, this feature will never backported to KDE3 implementation.

I close this file now.

Gilles Caulier