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0002    :description: digiKam Maintenance Tool Common Options
0003    :keywords: digiKam, documentation, user manual, photo management, open source, free, learn, easy, common options
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0007    :authors: - digiKam Team
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0009    :license: see Credits and License page for details (https://docs.digikam.org/en/credits_license.html)
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0013 Common Options
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0018 .. figure:: images/maintenance_albums_select.webp
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0022     The digiKam Maintenance Options to Select Albums
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0024 In the **Common Options** section you can restrict the scope of the maintenance process(es) to certain albums or tags. You got to un-check **Whole albums collection** or **Whole tags collection** to get access to the drop down fields where you can select albums or tags. Note that in this drop down field you have a context menu to select or deselect children and/or parents and also to invert the selection. If you switch from **Albums** to **Tags** or vice versa your selection in the now grayed out item will remain untouched which might be useful if you need a certain selection more often.
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0026 .. figure:: images/maintenance_tags_select.webp
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0030     The digiKam Maintenance Options to Select Tags
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0032 Since many of the processes the maintenance tool can perform are time consuming (depending also on the scope, of course) you have the choice to check **Work on all processor cores** if your machine has more than one and they are not occupied otherwise.
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0034 .. figure:: images/maintenance_common_options.webp
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0038     The digiKam Maintenance Common Options to Process Tools
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0040 The **Use the Last Saved Active Tools and Settings** allows to force to remember the options selection taken at last maintenance tool session.