[digiKam-users] Moving photos and database files

[JayRutherford]

Hello,

My thread this morning was redirected to cover another equally interesting topic, so I'm back asking the right way to move my 230GB photo collection and Digikam database files from a hard drive to the cloud drive, specifically pCloudDrive.

I see that I can create a second collection on the cloud drive and copy/cut photos and albums from the hard drive collection to the cloud drive collection. It works to preserve the metadata. I edited my Digikam configuration to write metadata to the "items" only and not the sidecar. (I agree that the metadata part of the Digikam configuration could be more clear in this respect).

How do I move the Digikam database files to the cloud drive? By doing the Database Migration tool as in /home/jay/pictures ---> /home/jay/pCloudDrive/pictures? That is the remaining question.

Thank you for your help!

Jay Rutherford

[Maik Qualmann]

I don't know pCloud, but before you kill your image collection. From an OpenSUSE forum I know that digiKam does not work with pCloud. DigiKam requires the files locally or mounted (SMB). Under Windows, we also better support the UNC network path in digiKam-7.0.0-RC. In addition, the image collection with the current digiKam version can be easily adapted to a new image root path. Provided that the underlying directory structure does not change.

Maik

Am Do., 14. Mai 2020 um 00:07 Uhr schrieb <[hidden email]>:

Hello,

My thread this morning was redirected to cover another equally interesting topic, so I'm back asking the right way to move my 230GB photo collection and Digikam database files from a hard drive to the cloud drive, specifically pCloudDrive.

I see that I can create a second collection on the cloud drive and copy/cut photos and albums from the hard drive collection to the cloud drive collection. It works to preserve the metadata. I edited my Digikam configuration to write metadata to the "items" only and not the sidecar. (I agree that the metadata part of the Digikam configuration could be more clear in this respect).

How do I move the Digikam database files to the cloud drive? By doing the Database Migration tool as in /home/jay/pictures ---> /home/jay/pCloudDrive/pictures? That is the remaining question.

Thank you for your help!

Jay Rutherford

[JayRutherford]

Thank you, Maik.  pCloudDrive presents as another hard drive on my OS, Linux Mint, not as a remote or removable drive. I have created an additional Digikam collection on pCloudDrive that I can easily work with version 6.4.0. I will continue to explore these options while I make sure to save backups of my photos and database files.

Jay Rutherford

On Thu, May 14, 2020, at 07:31, Maik Qualmann wrote:

I don't know pCloud, but before you kill your image collection. From an OpenSUSE forum I know that digiKam does not work with pCloud. DigiKam requires the files locally or mounted (SMB). Under Windows, we also better support the UNC network path in digiKam-7.0.0-RC. In addition, the image collection with the current digiKam version can be easily adapted to a new image root path. Provided that the underlying directory structure does not change.

Maik

Am Do., 14. Mai 2020 um 00:07 Uhr schrieb <[hidden email]>:

Hello,

My thread this morning was redirected to cover another equally interesting topic, so I'm back asking the right way to move my 230GB photo collection and Digikam database files from a hard drive to the cloud drive, specifically pCloudDrive.

I see that I can create a second collection on the cloud drive and copy/cut photos and albums from the hard drive collection to the cloud drive collection. It works to preserve the metadata. I edited my Digikam configuration to write metadata to the "items" only and not the sidecar. (I agree that the metadata part of the Digikam configuration could be more clear in this respect).

How do I move the Digikam database files to the cloud drive? By doing the Database Migration tool as in /home/jay/pictures ---> /home/jay/pCloudDrive/pictures? That is the remaining question.

Thank you for your help!

Jay Rutherford

[Gilles Caulier-4]

Maik,

In the past, using NFS and a NAS, i successfully run digiKam with a
remote collection, seen as mounted locally through the network. The
database still sqlite in local hard drive.

Perhaps this kind of workflow is applicable with cloud web service.

Gilles

Le jeu. 14 mai 2020 à 13:31, Maik Qualmann <[hidden email]> a écrit :

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> I don't know pCloud, but before you kill your image collection. From an OpenSUSE forum I know that digiKam does not work with pCloud. DigiKam requires the files locally or mounted (SMB). Under Windows, we also better support the UNC network path in digiKam-7.0.0-RC. In addition, the image collection with the current digiKam version can be easily adapted to a new image root path. Provided that the underlying directory structure does not change.
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> Maik
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> Am Do., 14. Mai 2020 um 00:07 Uhr schrieb <[hidden email]>:
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>> Hello,
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>> My thread this morning was redirected to cover another equally interesting topic, so I'm back asking the right way to move my 230GB photo collection and Digikam database files from a hard drive to the cloud drive, specifically pCloudDrive.
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>> I see that I can create a second collection on the cloud drive and copy/cut photos and albums from the hard drive collection to the cloud drive collection. It works to preserve the metadata. I edited my Digikam configuration to write metadata to the "items" only and not the sidecar. (I agree that the metadata part of the Digikam configuration could be more clear in this respect).
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>> How do I move the Digikam database files to the cloud drive? By doing the Database Migration tool as in /home/jay/pictures ---> /home/jay/pCloudDrive/pictures? That is the remaining question.
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>> Thank you for your help!
>>
>> Jay Rutherford
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