How do I move digikam data to different Windows PC

Posted by SteveF48 on Feb 19, 2022; 11:34am
URL: http://digikam.185.s1.nabble.com/How-do-I-move-digikam-data-to-different-Windows-PC-tp4717510.html

I'm using digikam with a Mariadb (Mysql Internal) database.
I copied the digikam folder to my laptop. The folder contained the following file:-
C:\Digikam\digikam4.db                   572mb
C:\Digikam\recognition.db                 32kb
C:\Digikam\similarity.db                    24kb
C:\Digikam\thumbnails-digikam.db   8.74gb

digikam seemed to pick up the correct files, once I'd configured it with the Mariaqdb binaries, but then it asked me where my pictures are. This appears to me to mean that digikam has not used the database, but is starting from scratch. Supporting evidence being that the number of images in the album slowly increased over time.

What did I do wrong? Why isn't digkam simply accessing the copied data, then scanning for new items?
Thanks in advance
Steve

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