When I attach my Pixel 7 and select PTP mode I tend to see pictures from two folders, the main Camera one but also .thumbnails. (I get even more unwanted folders if I put the phone into “File transfer” mode.) These extra thumbnail versions of photos are captured by Select/Download New. The obvious way to work around this is to select and delete the thumbnails before importing new photos but that’s kind of a hassle.
Happily it’s possible to fix this with Import Filters, which are not all that easy to find.
So our goal is to get rid of the unwanted .thumbnails
selection here:
The filters we’re going to use are activated via dropdown in the bottom-right of the import window - see the All Files here.
When I open the properties inspector I see that the real photos are under a folder called DCIM while the thumbnails are under a different path.
Go to:
- Settings menu, Configure digiKam
- Cameras section on the left
- Import Filters tab
- Select All Files (you can do this for other ones too)
- Click Edit
- Change the Path Filter to something unique to the files that we do want - here
*DCIM*
- Click OK and close the settings
- Close and re-open the import window for the camera device
- Enjoy only having the files you want visible