I think that may be useful to add the possibility to exclude folders during the scan using for example regex. My idea is that under the folder that I add to digikam I have also sub-folders or sub-sub-folders that I wouldn't like to include and see in digikam but in the meantime I also wouldn't like to move them in another position. Using regex could be very nice because is flexible, anyway the possibility to use metacharacters is very important. Thanks a lot. Luca
Please take a look to 5.5.0 release where we have introduced a exclusion feature about Database scan. It's located in Setup/Database panel. Gilles Caulier
Thanks for the reply. I've already looked at the feature present in the 5.5.0 but it seems that I can exclude only folder with a specific name (moreover without spaces). My need, instead, is to exclude every folder which name is not always exactly the same but only contains some words. Luca
digiKam 7.0.0 stable release is now published: https://www.digikam.org/news/2020-07-19-7.0.0_release_announcement/ We need a fresh feedback on this file using this version. Best Regards Gilles Caulier
This enhancement should be useful for me. Is it possible to include it in the next version?
If implementing RexEx is not yet available, simple wildcarding like would be nice as well. Examples for implementation: prefix*, *suffix
Git commit ab09daab2eff3e03b71d79d7dda5c4eb11f71d94 by Maik Qualmann. Committed on 21/12/2025 at 12:29. Pushed by mqualmann into branch 'master'. add regular expression wildcard support for ignored directories Wildcard characters such as * ? or [...] are possible. Related: bug 513583 FIXED-IN: 8.9.0 M +2 -2 NEWS M +16 -0 core/libs/database/collection/collectionscanner_p.cpp M +1 -0 core/libs/database/collection/collectionscanner_p.h M +2 -2 core/libs/database/collection/collectionscanner_scan.cpp https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/commit/ab09daab2eff3e03b71d79d7dda5c4eb11f71d94
We don't want full regular expressions in the GUI for the end user. Wildcard support should suffice. Maik