Prevent Photos in digiKam from Disappearing
Versioning in digiKam provides an excellent mechanism for non-destructive editing, but it does have a tiny quirk that can be a bit confusing if you are not aware of it. With the Versioning feature enabled, digiKam automatically displays only the most recent version of a photo and hides all the previous revisions, including the original file. This functionality helps to avoid clutter in the main thumbnail view, but this creature comfort can also cause panic when you all of a sudden can’t find the original photos. Fortunately, digiKam provides several ways of solving this conundrum.
Select the latest version of the photo, expand the Versioning right sidebar, and you should see all revisions of the selected image along with its original. If you want to make the original file visible in the thumbnail view, hover the mouse over the original’s thumbnail in the Versioning sidebar and click on the Show item permanently icon.
Alternatively, you can disable the hiding functionality altogether. To do this, choose Settings → Configure digiKam → Editing Images and untick the Always show original images and Always show intermediate snapshots check boxes.
This hint was very good!
I like Digikam so much
Arndt
2012/02/15 at 11:06
I’ve seen some comments about this before. Another suggestion might be that Digikam is changed slightly so that files with multiple versions show like a stack of slides on a lightbox, with just the rims of other ‘slides’ showing underneath the most recent. That way, at least you know that there are multiple versions behind the front one, and that maybe a click on the stack would allow you to see all versions of the file. Worth looking at as a longer term and possibly less confusing solution?
mark
2012/02/15 at 11:14
@Mark: Thanks, that was a terrific suggestion. Please show your support on this RFE:
Indication that there are multiple photo versions.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=294233
Dotan Cohen
2012/02/16 at 14:47
I agree that an overlay icon (similar to the one for symbolic links) would help a lot here.
mutlu
2012/02/16 at 16:55
Done.
Mark
2012/02/27 at 15:47
Awesome program, awesome developer team, awesome new features! You guys rock!
mutlu
2012/02/16 at 16:54
Woah! Took me quite a while to figure this out. This new behavior really should be made more obvious.
cschlipf
2012/04/06 at 13:29