SUMMARY When using 'Move' (Drag&Drop or Left click) only the modified image is moved and not the original as well. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Do some editing on pictures 2. Move the selected images to another album 3. The original image is not moved OBSERVED RESULT After I did some editing on a lot of pictures I wanted to reorganize my albums and move images to different albums. What I found out is that with the "Move" operation only the modified versions (_V1, _V2) are moved, the original image is not moved along. Is this by design and for any particular reason? If I then copy the original images manually to the destination album/folder afterwards, DigiKam still seems to work as expected, for example I can still open the original in the Editor. I don't know what this kind of workaround means for the database itself - will this bring some problems in the future? EXPECTED RESULT I would rather see that both the original and the modified version of the image are moved to the album I choose. This seems to me more appropriate as then I have all the pictures in the same album/folder. This helps me if I want to copy albums/folders to some other location/computer. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: 10 64-bit, Build date: May 21 2020 (target: RelWithDebInfo) KDE Plasma Version: KDE Frameworks Version: KDE Frameworks 5.70.0 Qt Version: Qt 5.14.2 (built against 5.14.2) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I don't know if we really want that. It is not safe to resolve the associated image via the file name (_V1, _V2 etc.) We can resolve it via the database. But what if users want to save their original images to a folder other than the edited image? Only move the original image if it is in the same folder? But then I can hardly get the images separated. We already have this function for sidecars, they move with the image. It is important and necessary for sidecars. Maik
Well, I agree there are many possible scenarios for users and it would be too complicated to cover them all. Anyway, this was more or less just a thought on the workflow that I use. I guess I'll have to adapt a little bit. BTW, as you mentioned some users might want to keep originals in different folder than modified images, that was the thing that I liked in my Picasa days: edit an image and the original is automatically copied to .originals folder. That way it was dead simple to copy (only the edited) images to USB for example. Again, my preference only.
As a side note: up until now I didn't consider using sidecars, maybe I will look into it in near future.