[digiKam-users] The location of my pictures moved. How to adjust the catalog

[Thomas-4]

Hi all,

 

I am using digiKam 5.9.0 under Windows 10 (1809 64bit).

I had a small SSD and therefore my pictures were at:

      D:\something\pictures\* (complex subfolder structure)

 

Now I invested and own a huge SSD where the pictures are now under

     C:\Users\Public\Pictures\*  (unchanged complex subfolder structure)

 

As I have invested quite a lot of time to identify persons/faces and tagging pictures I do not want to lose my work.

How can I manipulate the database to make digiKam aware about the new location of my pictures?

 

Best regards,

 

Thomas

 

[Maik Qualmann]

Install digiKam-6.0.0, here in the setup under collections now there is a button to update the collection path.

Maik

Thomas <[hidden email]> schrieb am Mo., 1. Apr. 2019 09:47:

Hi all,

 

I am using digiKam 5.9.0 under Windows 10 (1809 64bit).

I had a small SSD and therefore my pictures were at:

      D:\something\pictures\* (complex subfolder structure)

 

Now I invested and own a huge SSD where the pictures are now under

     C:\Users\Public\Pictures\*  (unchanged complex subfolder structure)

 

As I have invested quite a lot of time to identify persons/faces and tagging pictures I do not want to lose my work.

How can I manipulate the database to make digiKam aware about the new location of my pictures?

 

Best regards,

 

Thomas

 

[Andrew Goodbody]

Do make sure to backup your database first though!

Andrew

On 01/04/2019 09:06, Maik Qualmann wrote:

> Install digiKam-6.0.0, here in the setup under collections now there is
> a button to update the collection path.
>
> Maik
>
> Thomas <[hidden email] <mailto:[hidden email]>> schrieb am
> Mo., 1. Apr. 2019 09:47:
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>     I am using digiKam 5.9.0 under Windows 10 (1809 64bit).____
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>     I had a small SSD and therefore my pictures were at:____
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>            D:\something\pictures\* (complex subfolder structure)____
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>     Now I invested and own a huge SSD where the pictures are now under ____
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>           C:\Users\Public\Pictures\*  (unchanged complex subfolder
>     structure)____
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>     __ __
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>     As I have invested quite a lot of time to identify persons/faces and
>     tagging pictures I do not want to lose my work.____
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>     How can I manipulate the database to make digiKam aware about the
>     new location of my pictures?____
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>     __ __
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>     Best regards,____
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>     Thomas____
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[Thomas-4]

Thank You,

 

I just tried the solution and it worked fine!

But it was a bit tricky to find out that the circular-arrow-icon leads to the desired dialog. It would be great if this wonderful feature could be mentioned in the help files.

 

Best regards,

 

Thomas

 

 

 

Von: Digikam-users [mailto:[hidden email]] Im Auftrag von Maik Qualmann
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Betreff: Re: [digiKam-users] The location of my pictures moved. How to adjust the catalog

 

Install digiKam-6.0.0, here in the setup under collections now there is a button to update the collection path.

 

Maik

 

Thomas <[hidden email]> schrieb am Mo., 1. Apr. 2019 09:47:

Hi all,

 

I am using digiKam 5.9.0 under Windows 10 (1809 64bit).

I had a small SSD and therefore my pictures were at:

      D:\something\pictures\* (complex subfolder structure)

 

Now I invested and own a huge SSD where the pictures are now under

     C:\Users\Public\Pictures\*  (unchanged complex subfolder structure)

 

As I have invested quite a lot of time to identify persons/faces and tagging pictures I do not want to lose my work.

How can I manipulate the database to make digiKam aware about the new location of my pictures?

 

Best regards,

 

Thomas