Transfering Digikam to a new computer
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Transfering Digikam to a new computer
 
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I run digikam on Windows 8.0 and want to transfer my digicam installation to a new computer. I have written the metadata to the images and copied that to the pictures directory on the new computer. Unfortunately, the grouping information did not transfer and some of the tags seem to have disappeared. Also, in the old installation, there is a count after each tag showing how many images are assigned that tag. This is missing from the new installation. The old installation is 4.5 whereas the new is 4.10. I really need those numbers as I use them to check to make sure I have all images tagged as I want them. Please help. Windows 8 32 bit digikam 4.5 and digikam 4.10 _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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Hi Juanita,
"counter after each tag": - go to "Settings" -> "Configure digikam..." - on the left select "Album View" - and check "[x] Show a count of items in Tree Views" "missing tags": Digikam or Exiv2 sometimes misses to write some metadata to the image files. (Could not reliable reproduce this, but it happens some times.) To make sure all tags are written to the images, in your old digikam 4.5 installation: - make sure, you have a valid backup of your images and digikam db ;) - go to "Tags" in the left side view - click "Open Tag Manager" - click "Sync Export" - click "Write tags from Database to Image" Than you have to copy all of your images to your new computer again. Hope this helps. Regards, Peter On 29.05.2015 19:06, Juanita Hubbard wrote: > I run digikam on Windows 8.0 and want to transfer my digicam installation to a > new computer. I have written the metadata to the images and copied that to the > pictures directory on the new computer. Unfortunately, the grouping information > did not transfer and some of the tags seem to have disappeared. Also, in the > old installation, there is a count after each tag showing how many images are > assigned that tag. This is missing from the new installation. The old > installation is 4.5 whereas the new is 4.10. I really need those numbers as I > use them to check to make sure I have all images tagged as I want them. Please > help. > > > Windows 8 32 bit > > digikam 4.5 and digikam 4.10 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Digikam-users mailing list > [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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Peter, First off, thank you so much for your reply :) I did find the setting for the counts, and am now happy to have them back. However, I did Write tags from database to image and the color labels I had set did show up. Unfortunately, the grouping information did not. I'm will try it again but if you have any other suggestions, I would greatly appreciate hearing them. Or if anyone else has suggestions on this, that would be appreciated too! Thanks again! Juanita
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This is interesting. Thanks for your efforts. I have some videos in the collection as well. So this might be the Problem. Any idea to have a quick fix for windows? Now with the import bug still there and this bug now, digikam is hardly usable for me. Thanks. Fabian.
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Hi Juanita,
I don't use the grouping function, so I don't have any experience in this topic. Sorry. But another idea: Have you tried to copy the digikam database file to your new computer as well? On linux it is a single SQLite Database file called "digikam4.db", stored in the users home directory by default. I don't know the path for windows installations, but you can look this up in "Settings" -> "Database" -> "Database File Path". For most safety: In this case, I would place the images in the same path as on your old computer, so it is easier for digikam to find those images, again. If I remember correctly, digikam detects images with a checksum, too. But I am not sure if this checksum algorithm is constant when upgrading from 4.5 to 4.10, while also changing the file paths. So better do not change the later one. ;) Regards, Peter On 02.06.2015 01:38, Juanita Hubbard wrote: > Peter, > > > First off, thank you so much for your reply :) > > > I did find the setting for the counts, and am now happy to have them back. > > > However, I did Write tags from database to image and the color labels I had set > did show up. Unfortunately, the grouping information did not. I'm will try it > again but if you have any other suggestions, I would greatly appreciate hearing > them. Or if anyone else has suggestions on this, that would be appreciated too! > > > Thanks again! > > > Juanita > >> On June 1, 2015 at 1:13 PM Peter Albrecht <[hidden email]> wrote: >> >> >> Hi Juanita, >> >> "counter after each tag": >> >> - go to "Settings" -> "Configure digikam..." >> - on the left select "Album View" >> - and check "[x] Show a count of items in Tree Views" >> >> >> "missing tags": >> >> Digikam or Exiv2 sometimes misses to write some metadata to >> the image files. (Could not reliable reproduce this, but it >> happens some times.) >> To make sure all tags are written to the images, in your old >> digikam 4.5 installation: >> >> - make sure, you have a valid backup of your images and >> digikam db ;) >> - go to "Tags" in the left side view >> - click "Open Tag Manager" >> - click "Sync Export" >> - click "Write tags from Database to Image" >> >> Than you have to copy all of your images to your new >> computer again. >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> Regards, >> Peter >> >> >> On 29.05.2015 19:06, Juanita Hubbard wrote: >> > I run digikam on Windows 8.0 and want to transfer my digicam installation to a >> > new computer. I have written the metadata to the images and copied that to the >> > pictures directory on the new computer. Unfortunately, the grouping information >> > did not transfer and some of the tags seem to have disappeared. Also, in the >> > old installation, there is a count after each tag showing how many images are >> > assigned that tag. This is missing from the new installation. The old >> > installation is 4.5 whereas the new is 4.10. I really need those numbers as I >> > use them to check to make sure I have all images tagged as I want them. Please >> > help. >> > >> > >> > Windows 8 32 bit >> > >> > digikam 4.5 and digikam 4.10 >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Digikam-users mailing list >> > [hidden email] >> > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Digikam-users mailing list >> [hidden email] >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Digikam-users mailing list > [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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