Version: 0.7.1 (using KDE KDE 3.2.3) Installed from: Compiled From Sources OS: Linux It would be nice if a user could export a Tag(with all of the photos) into an external directory anywhere on the file system. (outside the digikam album directory). I organize my albums in "date style" (they are all named 2005-01-28 etc..) and I work with Tags to distinguish the content and seperate sucsesfull photos. After a while a Tag gets photos from a lot of Albums (different dates) and manipulating photos, organized in the Tags, with other outside programs gets a bit painfull. For example if I want to put all of the photos from the "People" tag on a network share, I have to track them one by one in their original directories (Albums) and copy them to the share folder, which as you can imagine is pretty dificult and which I have already done when organising them into the "People" tag. It would be nice to be able to export(copy) all of the photos in a tag into a seperate directory on the disk (with an export menu or similar). There already is a similar plugin Album->Export->HTML export. The logic is very similar to this but without making the html, making thumbnails, resizing etc. It should be simle. A users chooses one or multiple Tags, chooses the parent directory where they should be exported and clicks Ok. If I choose /home/georgi/ to be the export path then digiKam should try to create the /home/georgi/People directory and copy all of the photos that hav the "People" tag asigned into /home/georgi/People, and repeat this for every Tag I choose to be exported.
> It should be simle. A users chooses one or multiple Tags, chooses the > parent directory where they should be exported and clicks Ok. If I > choose /home/georgi/ to be the export path then digiKam should try to > create the /home/georgi/People directory and copy all of the photos that > hav the "People" tag asigned into /home/georgi/People, and repeat this > for every Tag I choose to be exported. Agree that menu entry would be nice (I am asking for that for a looong time) but doesn't simple drag'n'drop working for you? Select your photos and drag into Konqueror folder or Desktop. This is not very convenient because Digikam works best when in full screen but this works. I don't know how it works through the network but KIO-slaves should do everything for you.
the problem with drag-and-drop out of tags to a different folder is that many a times you have files with the same names (but in different folders) and you will end up having to rename files continually. This is best implemented as a kipi-plugin which will be smart about renaming files automatically (and optionally also resize/recompress the files). Saw this feature in picasa over the weekend and is a very convenient tool.
I would also like such a feature, since drag-and-drop is a pain when you're working in full-screen. In general, I think that exporting options are weak with DigiKam. One should be able to export whatever is beeing showed at the moment, like an advanced search! I've already felt the necessity of exporting the result from an advanced search, but couldn't do it straight from DigiKam. I vote on this option!
Implemented with KIOExport plugin. Try current code from svn... Gilles Caulier