Howto move Albums from one PC to another?

[Volker Guelke]

Hello everybody,

I'm currently using two computers (one laptop, one desktop) both running
digiKam. The laptop is used for the initial import and viewing of new
photos if I'm away from home. The desktop is my datastorage and working
environment.


During my last holidays I found the time to enter a lot of tags on my
photos inside the laptop digiKam installation. Now I'm back home and
want to migrate the new albums to my desktop-computer and of course, I
want to keep the tags on the pictures.


Now my questions:

Is there a way to migrate tags together with the album from on PC to
another?

Is there a kind of "whitepaper" on using digiKam in a multi-pc or
multiuser environment to bypass the problems which are potentially
located in such "non-standard" environments?

Thanks in advance,

Volker
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[Gerhard Kulzer]

Am Tuesday 31 July 2007 schrieb Volker Guelke:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm currently using two computers (one laptop, one desktop) both running
> digiKam. The laptop is used for the initial import and viewing of new
> photos if I'm away from home. The desktop is my datastorage and working
> environment.
>
>
> During my last holidays I found the time to enter a lot of tags on my
> photos inside the laptop digiKam installation. Now I'm back home and
> want to migrate the new albums to my desktop-computer and of course, I
> want to keep the tags on the pictures.
>
>
> Now my questions:
>
> Is there a way to migrate tags together with the album from on PC to
> another?
>
> Is there a kind of "whitepaper" on using digiKam in a multi-pc or
> multiuser environment to bypass the problems which are potentially
> located in such "non-standard" environments?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Volker
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Hi Volker,
this is to answer (partly) the two mails of you:

digiKam can be set-up (settings->configure digiKam->metadata) so as to write
all authoring data, comments and tags into the IPTC fields of the every image
file. If you do that you can actually move the files outside digiKam and
recover the metadata (provided they've not been overwritten by another
program) when re-integrating them into the digikam library path.

If you havn't set the above safe-metadata-to-file option yet, you can still
write all metadata into the files from Album menu: Synchronize images with
database. Unfortunately you have to do that album by album.

Gerhard

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[Wojciech Jarosz]

On 8/1/07, Gerhard Kulzer <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Am Tuesday 31 July 2007 schrieb Volker Guelke:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I'm currently using two computers (one laptop, one desktop) both running
> > digiKam. The laptop is used for the initial import and viewing of new
> > photos if I'm away from home. The desktop is my datastorage and working
> > environment.
> >
> >
> > During my last holidays I found the time to enter a lot of tags on my
> > photos inside the laptop digiKam installation. Now I'm back home and
> > want to migrate the new albums to my desktop-computer and of course, I
> > want to keep the tags on the pictures.
> >
> >
> > Now my questions:
> >
> > Is there a way to migrate tags together with the album from on PC to
> > another?
> >
> > Is there a kind of "whitepaper" on using digiKam in a multi-pc or
> > multiuser environment to bypass the problems which are potentially
> > located in such "non-standard" environments?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Volker
>
> Hi Volker,
> this is to answer (partly) the two mails of you:
>
> digiKam can be set-up (settings->configure digiKam->metadata) so as to write
> all authoring data, comments and tags into the IPTC fields of the every image
> file. If you do that you can actually move the files outside digiKam and
> recover the metadata (provided they've not been overwritten by another
> program) when re-integrating them into the digikam library path.

Hi Gerhard,
Is this true even of RAW files? I've noticed that when I try to check
the metadata of a CR2 file (Image->Metadata->Edit EXIF or
Image->Metadata->Edit IPTC) all the fields are grayed-out. Does this
mean that any added metadata to RAW files is only stored in the
digikam database, and not written to the files themselves?

Thanks,
-wojciech

>
> If you havn't set the above safe-metadata-to-file option yet, you can still
> write all metadata into the files from Album menu: Synchronize images with
> database. Unfortunately you have to do that album by album.
>
> Gerhard
>
> --
> Hakuna matata
> http://www.gerhard.fr

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[Gerhard Kulzer]

Am Wednesday 01 August 2007 schrieb Wojciech Jarosz:

> On 8/1/07, Gerhard Kulzer <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > Am Tuesday 31 July 2007 schrieb Volker Guelke:
> > > Hello everybody,
> > >
> > > I'm currently using two computers (one laptop, one desktop) both
> > > running digiKam. The laptop is used for the initial import and viewing
> > > of new photos if I'm away from home. The desktop is my datastorage and
> > > working environment.
> > >
> > >
> > > During my last holidays I found the time to enter a lot of tags on my
> > > photos inside the laptop digiKam installation. Now I'm back home and
> > > want to migrate the new albums to my desktop-computer and of course, I
> > > want to keep the tags on the pictures.
> > >
> > >
> > > Now my questions:
> > >
> > > Is there a way to migrate tags together with the album from on PC to
> > > another?
> > >
> > > Is there a kind of "whitepaper" on using digiKam in a multi-pc or
> > > multiuser environment to bypass the problems which are potentially
> > > located in such "non-standard" environments?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > Volker
> >
> > Hi Volker,
> > this is to answer (partly) the two mails of you:
> >
> > digiKam can be set-up (settings->configure digiKam->metadata) so as to
> > write all authoring data, comments and tags into the IPTC fields of the
> > every image file. If you do that you can actually move the files outside
> > digiKam and recover the metadata (provided they've not been overwritten
> > by another program) when re-integrating them into the digikam library
> > path.
>
> Hi Gerhard,
> Is this true even of RAW files? I've noticed that when I try to check
> the metadata of a CR2 file (Image->Metadata->Edit EXIF or
> Image->Metadata->Edit IPTC) all the fields are grayed-out. Does this
> mean that any added metadata to RAW files is only stored in the
> digikam database, and not written to the files themselves?

No it's not true for RAW files as the exiv2 library cannot write to tif files
(which are embedded in RAW formats). RAW format metadata is only present in
the database for now. This will change as soon as we can write TIFF.

Gerhard

> Thanks,
> -wojciech
>
> > If you havn't set the above safe-metadata-to-file option yet, you can
> > still write all metadata into the files from Album menu: Synchronize
> > images with database. Unfortunately you have to do that album by album.
> >
> > Gerhard
> >
> > --
> > Hakuna matata
> > http://www.gerhard.fr
>
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[Volker Guelke]

Hello Gerhard,

Gerhard Kulzer wrote:

> Hi Volker,
> this is to answer (partly) the two mails of you:
>
> digiKam can be set-up (settings->configure digiKam->metadata) so as to write
> all authoring data, comments and tags into the IPTC fields of the every image
> file. If you do that you can actually move the files outside digiKam and
> recover the metadata (provided they've not been overwritten by another
> program) when re-integrating them into the digikam library path.
>
> If you havn't set the above safe-metadata-to-file option yet, you can still
> write all metadata into the files from Album menu: Synchronize images with
> database. Unfortunately you have to do that album by album.
>
> Gerhard

thanks for the information. This sounds like it will work. Currently
I'm using an older Version of digiKam (0.8.2) on my Standard-PC
which seems to be unable to use the IPTC-Fields, but I will try that
after an upgrade to a 0.9 Version.

Will digiKam work with category keywords, if they are not yet
configured in the importing digiKam installation or do I need to
configure them manually before the import step?

Bye,
Volker
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