Migrating Digikam to a clean install of Kubuntu Jaunty

[tictactatic]

Dear list,

I am upgrading my machine from Kubuntu 8.04 to 9.04 and I am planning to do a clean install. As the machine happens to contain my primary Digikam installation, I would like to know what do I need to back up and then restore on the fresh install of Kubuntu.

Of course, the photos :) But what else, because I'd like to preserve all the metadata I've added (tags, rating, geolocation)? My current Digikam version is 0.9.3.

All the best,

Sava




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Hi Sava,

you should write all your metadata directly into the image files. Then all
information is within the images, and you just have to copy the image files to
the new machine. To do so, you have to tell digikam in its config panel-
>metadata to store metadata in the image, and then use extras->sync all images
with database.
However, I think this will not work for raw files, since 0.9.3 (as far as I
know) has no write support for metadata in raw files.

I think digikam 0.10 also offers a migration tool which will read the contents
your old digikam 0.9.3 database into the new one. To use this, you should make
a backup of your digikam database, the file called something like digikam3.db
in your top image directory. But I am not sure if you have to set up the paths
of your image collection in precisely the same way as on the old machine for
this to work, maybe one of the developers can comment on that.

Best,
Gandalf


On Sunday 03 May 2009 01:26:32 Sava Tatic wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> I am upgrading my machine from Kubuntu 8.04 to 9.04 and I am planning to do
> a clean install. As the machine happens to contain my primary Digikam
> installation, I would like to know what do I need to back up and then
> restore on the fresh install of Kubuntu.
>
> Of course, the photos :) But what else, because I'd like to preserve all
> the metadata I've added (tags, rating, geolocation)? My current Digikam
> version is 0.9.3.
>
> All the best,
>
> Sava

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Hi Gandalf,

Thank you for your reply. As I have no raw files, this solution should do
(thanks for the sync all images suggestion). I was planning to keep the same
structure anyway, so again no problems. Will see if the db upgrade succeeds in
any case.

Thanks again,

Sava

On Sunday 03 May 2009 11:36:56 Gandalf Lechner wrote:

> Hi Sava,
>
> you should write all your metadata directly into the image files. Then all
> information is within the images, and you just have to copy the image files
> to the new machine. To do so, you have to tell digikam in its config panel-
>
> >metadata to store metadata in the image, and then use extras->sync all
> > images
>
> with database.
> However, I think this will not work for raw files, since 0.9.3 (as far as I
> know) has no write support for metadata in raw files.
>
> I think digikam 0.10 also offers a migration tool which will read the
> contents your old digikam 0.9.3 database into the new one. To use this, you
> should make a backup of your digikam database, the file called something
> like digikam3.db in your top image directory. But I am not sure if you have
> to set up the paths of your image collection in precisely the same way as
> on the old machine for this to work, maybe one of the developers can
> comment on that.
>
> Best,
> Gandalf
>
> On Sunday 03 May 2009 01:26:32 Sava Tatic wrote:
> > Dear list,
> >
> > I am upgrading my machine from Kubuntu 8.04 to 9.04 and I am planning to
> > do a clean install. As the machine happens to contain my primary Digikam
> > installation, I would like to know what do I need to back up and then
> > restore on the fresh install of Kubuntu.
> >
> > Of course, the photos :) But what else, because I'd like to preserve all
> > the metadata I've added (tags, rating, geolocation)? My current Digikam
> > version is 0.9.3.
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> > Sava
>
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[Gilles Caulier-4]

digiKam records all meta info to a database (rating, comments, tags,
etc...) So, read only files can be metadated.

With 0.9.x, database file is stored to root folder of your collection.
When you start 0.10.0, we check if DB file is present and we start to
convert to new schema. A new DB file is created. Old one stil
untouched.

If none old DB file is found at root folder, we scan image metadata to
create new DB file.

To be clear, nothing will lost.

Gilles Caulier

2009/5/3 Sava Tatic <[hidden email]>:

> Hi Gandalf,
>
> Thank you for your reply. As I have no raw files, this solution should do
> (thanks for the sync all images suggestion). I was planning to keep the same
> structure anyway, so again no problems. Will see if the db upgrade succeeds in
> any case.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Sava
>
> On Sunday 03 May 2009 11:36:56 Gandalf Lechner wrote:
>> Hi Sava,
>>
>> you should write all your metadata directly into the image files. Then all
>> information is within the images, and you just have to copy the image files
>> to the new machine. To do so, you have to tell digikam in its config panel-
>>
>> >metadata to store metadata in the image, and then use extras->sync all
>> > images
>>
>> with database.
>> However, I think this will not work for raw files, since 0.9.3 (as far as I
>> know) has no write support for metadata in raw files.
>>
>> I think digikam 0.10 also offers a migration tool which will read the
>> contents your old digikam 0.9.3 database into the new one. To use this, you
>> should make a backup of your digikam database, the file called something
>> like digikam3.db in your top image directory. But I am not sure if you have
>> to set up the paths of your image collection in precisely the same way as
>> on the old machine for this to work, maybe one of the developers can
>> comment on that.
>>
>> Best,
>> Gandalf
>>
>> On Sunday 03 May 2009 01:26:32 Sava Tatic wrote:
>> > Dear list,
>> >
>> > I am upgrading my machine from Kubuntu 8.04 to 9.04 and I am planning to
>> > do a clean install. As the machine happens to contain my primary Digikam
>> > installation, I would like to know what do I need to back up and then
>> > restore on the fresh install of Kubuntu.
>> >
>> > Of course, the photos :) But what else, because I'd like to preserve all
>> > the metadata I've added (tags, rating, geolocation)? My current Digikam
>> > version is 0.9.3.
>> >
>> > All the best,
>> >
>> > Sava
>>
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