Moving digiKam collection
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I've run out of room for photos on my hard drive, and have added a new one. What's the best way to move all the existing photos to this drive, without losing the tags, etc?
Should I bother moving the database as well, or is performance better if it's on a separate drive? What about the thumbnails? I currently have these in the same directory the collection is in. _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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1. Just move the root directory of you collection (can be found in settings) to a new location, start digikam and point the new directory and the db file (which is in root dir by default) in the wizard.
2. Copy instead of move and point new local collection and db in settings (I didn't try that way) 3. You can have pictures on both disks. Add a new local collections in settings and you can move some/all to this new one using digikam only Make a backup ... 2010/1/6 Peter Shute <[hidden email]> I've run out of room for photos on my hard drive, and have added a new one. What's the best way to move all the existing photos to this drive, without losing the tags, etc? _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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I'm trying method 2, as I don't want to trust the new disk completely just yet. As soon as I created the new collection, the CPU went to 100% and it has been that way for at least an hour. I expect it is importing all the photos again. It would be nice if it gave some indication of progress.
I read somewhere that it should recognise them as duplicates, and should apply the same tags. True? If not, then I might try method 1. How does one activate the wizard? Does it come up automatically when it can't find the files in the collection? Hopefully there are no bugs in 1.0.0 beta5 that affect this. ________________________________ From: Bartek Pietrasiak [[hidden email]] Sent: Thursday, 7 January 2010 11:09 AM To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] Moving digiKam collection 1. Just move the root directory of you collection (can be found in settings) to a new location, start digikam and point the new directory and the db file (which is in root dir by default) in the wizard. 2. Copy instead of move and point new local collection and db in settings (I didn't try that way) 3. You can have pictures on both disks. Add a new local collections in settings and you can move some/all to this new one using digikam only Make a backup ... 2010/1/6 Peter Shute <[hidden email]<mailto:[hidden email]>> I've run out of room for photos on my hard drive, and have added a new one. What's the best way to move all the existing photos to this drive, without losing the tags, etc? Should I bother moving the database as well, or is performance better if it's on a separate drive? What about the thumbnails? I currently have these in the same directory the collection is in. _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email]<mailto:[hidden email]> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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Can you tell me the path to main collection and the path to database? (can be found in settings). Please update to 1.0.0. Beta5 is quite old, with many bugs.
2010/1/7 Peter Shute <[hidden email]> I'm trying method 2, as I don't want to trust the new disk completely just yet. As soon as I created the new collection, the CPU went to 100% and it has been that way for at least an hour. I expect it is importing all the photos again. It would be nice if it gave some indication of progress. _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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The main collection and database are both in C:\t\p\birds\bird photos. From: Bartek Pietrasiak To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source Sent: Thu Jan 07 21:28:54 2010 Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] Moving digiKam collection Can you tell me the path to main collection and the path to database? (can be found in settings). Please update to 1.0.0. Beta5 is quite old, with many bugs. 2010/1/7 Peter Shute <[hidden email]> I'm trying method 2, as I don't want to trust the new disk completely just yet. As soon as I created the new collection, the CPU went to 100% and it has been that way for at least an hour. I expect it is importing all the photos again. It would be nice if it gave some indication of progress. _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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You have probably duplicated the collections because of the import. Try to restore to backup so that you will be at the time where you had only C:\t\p\birds\bird photos (== revert all you operations). Then change the name (not copy) C:\t\p\birds\bird photos to C:\t\p\birds\bird photos2 for test and start digikam again. Digikam will show a wizard. Put the C:\t\p\birds\bird photos2 in collection root and digikam database. A few "Next" and you should have digikam running with collection in new place.
2010/1/7 Peter Shute <[hidden email]>
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