[digiKam-users] Best way to move collection from internal to external hard drive

[Julien Coubronne]

Hello,

Using Digikam on Windows, my database is on my "system" drive (C:/) and
most of my pictures on an internal (2 Tera) hard drive (D:/).

I would like to move this collection on an external hard drive (USB),
with the aim of being able to "share" this drive back and forth between
two computers (i.e. use this drive with Digikam on two different
computers, one running windows, the other one linux).

My aim is to ensure that everytime I switch computer, the changes (in
structure and in metadata) are kept.

What would be the best way to achieve this ?

Thanks for your help.
Julien

[AndriusWild]

I think the best way to do that is to write metadata to sidecar files. Otherwise digikam will see images on Linux e.g. /home/user/my-precious-pictures/ as different images because they will be in c:\users\user\my-precious-pictures on Windows. Just my thoughts though.

I would tick these boxes in settings - metadata:

[x] Read from sidecars

[x] Write to sidecars

Thanks,

Andrey

On Jul 8, 2018, at 12:01 PM, Julien Coubronne <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hello,

Using Digikam on Windows, my database is on my "system" drive (C:/) and most of my pictures on an internal (2 Tera) hard drive (D:/).

I would like to move this collection on an external hard drive (USB), with the aim of being able to "share" this drive back and forth between two computers (i.e. use this drive with Digikam on two different computers, one running windows, the other one linux).

My aim is to ensure that everytime I switch computer, the changes (in structure and in metadata) are kept.

What would be the best way to achieve this ?

Thanks for your help.
Julien