#Digikam applying recursive tag archive
#Digikam applying recursive tag software

r rootdir rootdir denotes the digikam base directory containing all your photos if you are usingĭigikam in a version before 0.10. Usually can be found in digikams root directory. d database database is the complete path including the filename to digikams photo database which By using option -C however you can perform a Usually only those photos will be archived that You can tar it, send it to a friend or just put it somewhereįor archivel or backup purposes.

#Digikam applying recursive tag archive

This way you have one archive directory that is completely The Tags subdirectory will contain links to the files in If one of digikams root directories is on another filesystem this one will not be processed, since hardlinking the photos inside the Photos directory would not However still the requirement holds, that archivedir has to be on the same filesystem like all the root directories containing photos you defined in digikam. Instead the root paths of all albums are taken from digikams database directly. Using digikam version = 0.10 you cannot specify A has to be used together with option -r rootdir if A archivedirectory archivedirectory denotes a directory into which the script will export the photos and their tag To specify options -r rootdir as well as -d database. If calling the script with option -l taglinkDir you also have Symbolic links in these subdirectories that point to the original photo wearing Rootdir will be exported to by creating subdirectories for each tag and placing Parameter taglinkdir denotes a directory in which the tag structure of Structure containing links to the original images that wear the tags.įor whatever reason the digikam.db file gets corrupted or even lost. Space on your harddisk and you have an archive that allows you or a friend toĪnother benefit from using this script is that you have kind of a backup of your This way the archive directory needs nearly no additional Subdirectory there are links (either symbolic or hard links) to the files in the The Photosĭirectory contains hard links to your original photos, and the Tags directoryĬontains a subdirectory for each Tag used by any of your photos. One named Photos and a second named Tags.

Script creates the directory given as parameter to -A and in this directory two a tar archive and send it toĪ friend, who can look at the photos via their tag structure. This way youĬan put your photos and their tag structure in eg. Independently of digikams root directories and the photos therein. The second way of calling this script is the so called archive-mode by settingĪrchive mode is thought for people who want to archive tagged photos Pictures to be put into a web album in the filesystem because JAlbum cannotĪccess digikams virtual folders directly.

#Digikam applying recursive tag software

to run JAlbum a photo album software that needs to find the In this way you can access the collection of all images that share a certain tagīy changing directory to the folder with the tags name created by this script. These folders you will find links to your original photos. As a result you will see the tags of your photos as folders and in Will finally place symbolic or hard links (see -H) to photos having the tags Option -l taglinkdir the script will create the user specifiedĭirectory taglinkdir and inside this directory it will create subĭirectories for digikam tags set on the photos. The script can be used in two ways: If you call it using