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   :description: digiKam Maintenance Tool Common Options
   :keywords: digiKam, documentation, user manual, photo management, open source, free, learn, easy, common options

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   :authors: - digiKam Team

   :license: see Credits and License page for details (https://docs.digikam.org/en/credits_license.html)

.. _maintenance_common:

:ref:`Common Options <maintenance_tools>`
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    The digiKam Maintenance Options to Select Albums

In the **Common Options** section you can restrict the scope of the maintenance process(es) to certain albums or tags. You can un-check **Whole albums collection** or **Whole tags collection** to get access to the drop down fields where you can select specific albums or tags. Note that a context menu in this drop down field allows you 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 to reuse a certain selection.

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    The digiKam Maintenance Options to Select Tags

Since many of the processes the maintenance tool can perform are time consuming (depending on scope), you have the choice to check **Work on all processor cores** if your machine has more than one core and they are not otherwise occupied.

.. figure:: images/maintenance_common_options.webp
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    The digiKam Maintenance Common Options to Process Tools

The **Use the Last Saved Active Tools and Settings** forces digiKam to remember the options selections made at the last maintenance tool session.