Moving collection

[tosca]

I would like to move my whole photos collection to an external drive, and will probably use Nautilus as the folders also contain XMP Darktable-generated files.
How will it go with Digikam? Will I lose the content of the DB, or is there a way to manage this?

Thanks for your ideas,
Marie-Noëlle

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[Rinus Bakker]

In my case I have done successfully, bu taking care that the external drive afterwards is mounted by the sam path as the old drive. Suppose your collection is on drive PHOTO, you should rename it and name your external PHOTO

I think you get some message the collection has been found but the id has changed, if you accept that, it will probably work. No garantee.

2012/2/6 Marie-Noëlle Augendre <[hidden email]>

I would like to move my whole photos collection to an external drive, and will probably use Nautilus as the folders also contain XMP Darktable-generated files.
How will it go with Digikam? Will I lose the content of the DB, or is there a way to manage this?

Thanks for your ideas,
Marie-Noëlle

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Le 06/02/2012 11:21, Marie-Noëlle Augendre a écrit :
> I would like to move my whole photos collection to an external drive,
> and will probably use Nautilus as the folders also contain XMP
> Darktable-generated files.
> How will it go with Digikam? Will I lose the content of the DB, or is
> there a way to manage this?

make the move in digikam?

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[tosca]

Making the move in Digikam will only move the files recognized by DK. All the RAW files that have been developped by Darktable have a XMP file that needs also to be moved to the same location.

Marie-Noëlle

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Le 06/02/2012 11:21, Marie-Noëlle Augendre a écrit :

I would like to move my whole photos collection to an external drive,
and will probably use Nautilus as the folders also contain XMP
Darktable-generated files.
How will it go with Digikam? Will I lose the content of the DB, or is
there a way to manage this?

make the move in digikam?

jdd

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Le 06/02/2012 14:40, Marie-Noëlle Augendre a écrit :
> Making the move in Digikam will only move the files recognized by DK.
> All the RAW files that have been developped by Darktable have a XMP
> file that needs also to be moved to the same location.

it's not difficult to move the other files afterward with dolphin

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[tosca]

I guess it depends how many folders/subfolders are concerned.
Marie-Noëlle

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Le 06/02/2012 14:40, Marie-Noëlle Augendre a écrit :

Making the move in Digikam will only move the files recognized by DK.
All the RAW files that have been developped by Darktable have a XMP
file that needs also to be moved to the same location.

it's not difficult to move the other files afterward with dolphin

jdd
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[Jean-François Rabasse]

On Mon, 6 Feb 2012, Marie-Noëlle Augendre wrote:

> 2012/2/6 jdd <[hidden email]>
>
>> Le 06/02/2012 14:40, Marie-Noëlle Augendre a écrit :
>>
>>  Making the move in Digikam will only move the files recognized by DK.
>>> All the RAW files that have been developped by Darktable have a XMP
>>> file that needs also to be moved to the same location.
>>>
>>
>> it's not difficult to move the other files afterward with dolphin
>>
>> jdd

> I guess it depends how many folders/subfolders are concerned.
> Marie-Noëlle

And also how many non images files in these folders :-)

If this can help, I can suggest a trick I've already done in the past
(before switching to "all with Dolphin" philosophy now) :

In DK setup, "MIME Types" folder, you can add a dummy "xmp" extension in
the Additional image file extensions field, then restart DK.
Your xmp files, though unsupported, will be detected at scan time and
will appear in the albums icons views.
As they are now visible, you can select them along with your images
files, and move groups of files with drag/drop.

Regards,
Jean-François

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[Martin (KDE)]

Am 06.02.2012 15:27, schrieb Marie-Noëlle Augendre:
> I guess it depends how many folders/subfolders are concerned.

No, not really. A well set up rsync does it all. If all files digikam
needs are copied, run

rsync -avh /src/dir /dest/dir

and all missing and newer files from your source (including the dir) are
copied to the dest folder. If you want to copy the content of /src/dir
only (without the dir) use

rsync -avh /src/dir/ /dest/dir

So the slash after /src/dir makes the difference.

But just a question: Why do you want to handle your photos on an
external drive (only)?

Regards
Martin

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>     Le 06/02/2012 14:40, Marie-Noëlle Augendre a écrit :
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>         Making the move in Digikam will only move the files recognized
>         by DK.
>         All the RAW files that have been developped by Darktable have a XMP
>         file that needs also to be moved to the same location.
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>     it's not difficult to move the other files afterward with dolphin
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Le 06/02/2012 15:27, Marie-Noëlle Augendre a écrit :
> I guess it depends how many folders/subfolders are concerned.

after verification, it appears that digikam moves albums like dolphin
move folders, not looking at the content.

* Create the new (empty) collection,
* clic on the initial album and shift it to the new collection, a menu
open and ask move? do. the folder is moved.

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[tosca]

Thanks for all your answers.
I guess I have several solutions now, and will choose the one I'm more comfortable with.

Marie-Noëlle


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