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== Quick Tip: Disable Certain File Types in digiKam == <!--T:1-->
Transcribed from Dmitri Popov's blog, 3 August, 2011

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'''digiKam''' supports an impressive range of file formats, so you can use the application to handle RAW files, movies and everything in between. But what if you want to explicitly exclude a specific type of files? '''digiKam''' offers a simple solution for that.


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Choose <menuchoice>Settings -> Configure digiKam</menuchoice> and switch to the <menuchoice>MIME Types</menuchoice> section. To exclude, for example, the PPM format, enter -ppm in the <menuchoice>Image Files</menuchoice> field. You can add multiple formats using a space as separator. Excluding specific formats from '''digiKam''' doesn’t actually delete them, but simply hides them from '''digiKam''' and removes all metadata from the '''digiKam''' databases. So be careful when using exclusion filters if you don’t want to lose tags, ratings, and other metadata.

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