Bug 283393

Summary: Remember Last Saved directory
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: rm <rmcorrespond>
Component: ImageEditor-SaveAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: caulier.gilles
Priority: NOR    
Version: 2.2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Unlisted Binaries   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 2.3.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description rm 2011-10-05 14:27:43 UTC 
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.5) 
OS:                Linux

Since I don't save my finished images in the same directory where the RAW images reside, I need an option for making digiKam remember the last directory I saved to. The way it is now, every time I save a new image I have to click, click, click... to get to the right directory. Is there a setting I could change in order to avoid all that clicking? Could there be?

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1.- In digiKam navigate to the directory where my RAW images reside.
2.- Process an image.
3.- Save the file into a separate "finished images" directory tree.
4.- Repeat steps 2 and 3 hundreds of times.

Actual Results:  
Every time I go to save a newly processed RAW image, I have to navigate to my "finished images" directory tree.

Expected Results:  
digiKam should remember what directory I last saved to.

That is how Photoshop works, by the way.
Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2011-10-05 14:50:19 UTC 
>Every time I go to save a newly processed RAW image, I have to navigate to my
>"finished images" directory tree.

Do you process the RAW image in Editor ?

Gilles Caulier
Comment 2 rm 2011-10-05 15:25:20 UTC 
Yes, I use Editor.
Comment 3 Marcel Wiesweg 2011-10-29 15:25:26 UTC 
Is this digikam 2.2.0? Are you using versioning?
Comment 4 rm 2011-11-03 21:08:17 UTC 
Still using 1.9.0 on PCLinuxOS and 1.8.0 in OpenSuse (tumbleweed). Neither have the 2.0 on their standard repositories.  I am not one that likes to go out on my own.

I have digiKam configured with one Local Collection pointing to: "/data/Shared_Files/Pictures", which is the root location of all my images.  Under that directory, I have two branches, "raw" and "finished".  Under those, I have my images stored by "[year]/[date of shoot]".  So, when I go, for example, to work on images located in "/data/Shared_Files/Pictures/raw/2011/10-06/", every time I try to Save an image, I have to click on Pictures, finished, 2011, 10-06.  That is four clicks.  Repeat that for every image and it gets to be too much.  
Someone sugested making a symlink to the finished directory inside the raw directory.  I had not thought of that.  That would bring it down to just one click.  I just have to remember to delete the symlink when I am done.  Either that or make sure I set p7zip to not follow symlinks when I compress the raw folder.

Still, the best solution is for digiKam to remember the last directory I saved to.  That would mean 0 clicks.
Comment 5 Marcel Wiesweg 2011-11-05 12:43:48 UTC 
The relevant code has been rewritten with the development of versioning. Save directories should be preserved, any problem experienced with a 2.x version is welcome.
Comment 6 rm 2011-11-07 15:03:49 UTC 
Merci mille fois, Mille fois merci
Comment 7 caulier.gilles 2011-11-07 15:38:19 UTC 
de rien (:=)))