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select the photos<br>click Export>Remote computer<br>click Select target location<br><br>I could select my DVD burner but it wouldn't burn the files so you can select some location on your hard drive like your desktop to put them in a folder and then use DVD burning software to burn the DVD.<br><br>Not real elegant but it works.<br><br>> From: kde@fahrendorf.de<br>> To: digikam-users@kde.org<br>> Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 18:23:40 +0100<br>> Subject: [Digikam-users] Re: How-to move photos to CD/DVD or other external repositories<br>> <br>> Am Sonntag, 2. Januar 2011 schrieb Juhani Talvela:<br>> > I'd very much like to burn some of my photos to DVD and store them<br>> > separately. This would help me to:<br>> > a) save disk space on my PC<br>> > b) have an organized library of my photo files in a physical<br>> > form... (I would like to take along a DVD every now and then when<br>> > I go to friends)<br>> > <br>> > But how do I do this? There is an export command in DigiKam that I<br>> > can use to export pictures to some SmugMug, remote computer,<br>> > Gallery, iPod, PicasaWeb, etc... But it doesn't include CD/DVD<br>> > option.<br>> > <br>> > I can of course just burn some pictures on a DVD and just leave<br>> > them on my PC. But this is not good, since it eats up my disk<br>> > space. Is there a way for DigiKam to support storing original<br>> > picutres on a CD/DVD, and just leave a small thumbnail on the<br>> > database?<br>> <br>> I think this is due to the kind of saving data on a CD/DVD. This type <br>> of media is not designed to store a bunch of files but one (or more if <br>> you use multi session) iso file. You have to create a iso file first <br>> before you can store the data on CD/DVD.<br>> <br>> May be Nautilus (or some other file manager) make this transparently, <br>> but this does not change the way files are stored.<br>> <br>> If you want to use removable media like CD your only choice is DVD-RAM <br>> which uses a filesystem similar to those on your harddrive.<br>> <br>> This is no limitation by digikam.<br>> <br>> If you have stored your photos on a CD/DVD you can no longer change <br>> tags into this files. Access to this files is incredibly slow. So I <br>> don't think that it is a good idea to use photos on CD/DVD in digikam.<br>> <br>> The way to go is an external harddisk connected via USB or eSATA or <br>> even network. This media can be added with the removable collections.<br>> <br>> Greetings<br>> <br>> Martin<br>> <br>> > <br>> > All help and ideas on how to do this are appreciated.<br>> > Cheers<br>> > -- Juhani<br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > Digikam-users mailing list<br>> > Digikam-users@kde.org<br>> > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Digikam-users mailing list<br>> Digikam-users@kde.org<br>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users<br> </body>
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