Digikam albums are actually folders, so where are the collections/albums?

[BuckSkin]

@rasimo

I use tags for that purpose. My photo library on disk and thus digikam albums is structured by “event” sorted by date (e.g. “20190817-Family_Hike”). Then if I do virtual albums (e.g. “2019-Family_bestof”) I have a top-level tag (which isn’t applied) called “collections” and the virtual album name is a subtag of that.

Thank You VERY MUCH !

I use tags (I call them keyword tags) extensively and it never dawned on me to use tags to handle “virtual” albums.

Actually, that is all Lightroom and other programs do to handle these type groupings; they just keep the tag invisible, but the principle is the same.