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The main collection and database are both in C:\t\p\birds\bird photos.<br><br>The new collection is in P:\photos\birds. I copied the files there outside of digiKam then imported them.<br><br>I didn't time the import of the duplicated images, but it took a few hours. I was able to roughly track its progress by watching the database double in size, not something you could normally do.<br><br>A few random photos I checked have indeed inherited the tags and ratings of the original copies of the photos, an excellent result. So I guess all I need to do is disassociate the main collection with the original files, but that can wait a while.<br><br>I would love to upgrade to the released version, but I'm using KDE on Windows, and I can't work out how. I think I need to download the source and compile it, but haven't had any luck with that so far.<br>
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<b>From</b>: Bartek Pietrasiak <pietras.sp@gmail.com>
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<br><b>Sent</b>: Thu Jan 07 21:28:54 2010<br><b>Subject</b>: Re: [Digikam-users] Moving digiKam collection
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Can you tell me the path to main collection and the path to database? (can be found in settings). Please update to 1.0.0. Beta5 is quite old, with many bugs.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/1/7 Peter Shute <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pshute@nuw.org.au">pshute@nuw.org.au</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I'm trying method 2, as I don't want to trust the new disk completely just yet. As soon as I created the new collection, the CPU went to 100% and it has been that way for at least an hour. I expect it is importing all the photos again. It would be nice if it gave some indication of progress.<br>
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I read somewhere that it should recognise them as duplicates, and should apply the same tags. True? If not, then I might try method 1. How does one activate the wizard? Does it come up automatically when it can't find the files in the collection?<br>
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Hopefully there are no bugs in 1.0.0 beta5 that affect this.<br>
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Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] Moving digiKam collection<br>
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1. Just move the root directory of you collection (can be found in settings) to a new location, start digikam and point the new directory and the db file (which is in root dir by default) in the wizard.<br>
2. Copy instead of move and point new local collection and db in settings (I didn't try that way)<br>
3. You can have pictures on both disks. Add a new local collections in settings and you can move some/all to this new one using digikam only<br>
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Make a backup ...<br>
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</div>2010/1/6 Peter Shute <<a href="mailto:pshute@nuw.org.au">pshute@nuw.org.au</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:pshute@nuw.org.au">pshute@nuw.org.au</a>>><br>
<div class="im">I've run out of room for photos on my hard drive, and have added a new one. What's the best way to move all the existing photos to this drive, without losing the tags, etc?<br>
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Should I bother moving the database as well, or is performance better if it's on a separate drive? What about the thumbnails? I currently have these in the same directory the collection is in.<br>
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