Bug 94363 - Wish: Linking and lazy copying
Summary: Wish: Linking and lazy copying
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: digikam
Classification: Applications
Component: Portability-Cmake (show other bugs)
Version: 0.6.2
Platform: Gentoo Packages Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Digikam Developers
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Reported: 2004-12-04 02:14 UTC by Arent
Modified: 2022-01-31 16:16 UTC (History)
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Version Fixed In: 7.6.0

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Description Arent 2004-12-04 02:14:55 UTC 
Version:           0.6.2 (using KDE KDE 3.3.1)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

I'm keeping all my images in a "master archive". I would like to use DigiKam to organize, but not to hold these images. Importing vast numbers of pictures to a DigiKam album and thus duplicating GBs of data doesn't make much sense to me.

I would suggest letting the user decide if he/she wants to copy, move or link images while importing to an album. If the user would trigger a modification of a linked image, DigiKam could replace automatically a linked image by a copied image (lazy copying). That would be very nice an clever!
Comment 1 Renchi Raju 2005-03-06 18:48:04 UTC 
digiKam is not meant to hold a separate repository of images (note, the album library path can be anything you want). if you are concerned about photos being modified, just set the directories/images to the non-writable.