Bug 434102

Summary:	Do not move files on the hard disk, just remove from album
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	info
Component:	Albums-Trash	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	caulier.gilles, metzpinguin
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	7.1.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Microsoft Windows
OS:	Microsoft Windows
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:	7.5.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description info 2021-03-07 11:11:51 UTC

I had expected that the software will NOT touch the physical files.

But with the trash, they get moved or even deleted from the disk.
I suggest that the "move to trash" is just a "remove db entry from Album/DB" or a "mark as deleted = do not show" by default.

Similar to Lightroom where I can select to remove from collection only, or physically delete the file.

Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2021-03-07 11:27:44 UTC

It's a strange concept. A trash is a trash , as the desktop one. files are moved inside, and file are deleted definitively when user clean the trash.

So, i'm not convinced by this idea...

Gilles Caulier

Comment 2 Maik Qualmann 2021-03-07 11:32:58 UTC

Not move images into the trash that you no longer want to see is really a very strange concept. I can rather imagine that you want certain images to be "private" and that you want to hide them. We already have a bug report on this.

Maik

Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2021-03-07 11:43:33 UTC

And remember that digiKam try to be the most simple to use about file management. It use the disk file/folder hierarchies. By this way if we make trash item as virtual depending of a DB property, it's will be a hell for archiving and interoperability.

I vote -1 for this feature...

Note : if LR implement this strange feature, we are no force to code the same in DK. I will not jump through my window because Adobe ask to do it...

Gilles Caulier