Bug 332823

Summary: offer possibility to protect pics from undesired delete
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Axel Krebs <axel.krebs>
Component: Database-TrashAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: REOPENED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: caulier.gilles, lion, metzpinguin
Priority: NOR    
Version: 3.4.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Kubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Axel Krebs 2014-03-30 19:43:42 UTC 
Some times, pics cannot be replaced or pictured again- car crash, dead persons etc.
For this case, I suggest that digiKam should offer a "super-tag" which reliabliy takes care, that the related pic can NOT be deleted. 

All pics derived from this pic should get the same protection automatically

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. does not apply
2. please see description above
3.
Actual Results:  
is not offered, one can destroy important pictures, as no protection exists.

Expected Results:  
Protection should provide "rock-solid" protection agaibnst unintentional destroy
Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2014-04-01 09:42:05 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 150531 ***
Comment 2 Ferenc Veres 2022-12-31 13:26:48 UTC 
In comment #1 this was closed as duplicate of  bug #150531 : "add album password-protect feature " - but this request is different. That is about protecting images with password or hiding some images from browse. This is about protecting images from DELETION.

I would like to have a feature which disables deleting all images that have any work on them. Any tags, or other. (E.g. a software setting "Protect those images from deletion, that have been worked on")

My workflow is as follows: after shooting images, I select certain ones to be developed, mark them with various tags (develop, develop_cut, develop_not, ...). Much later on (sometimes years later), I do some cleanup and delete bad photos - but I'd never want to delete photos that went to clients or have been printed to paper! These are all marked with various tags (or statuses or stars or colors, DigiKam's cool features).

So if "protect images from deletion" setting is enabled in settings, the delete feature would work only on those photos that have not been "worked on". Even digital cameras (with their horrible GUI) have this protect feature.

But original poster's idea is also OK: I could use a dedicated "protect image" feature, but that's extra work of adding protect to all images on which I work. This could be automatic by simply respecting the "work".