<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Hello all,</div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">I would like to get advice on what is the best methodology to migrate from my computer to a NAS. I'm planning to shift from SQLite to MySQL in the process. This is how I would </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">proceed</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">:</font></div><div><ul><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york',
times, serif">backup of my current picture folders (of course)</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">copy of my pictures folders (or collections) to the NAS</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">creation of the MySQL DB within Digikam</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">migration from the current SQLite to MySQL using Digikam migration tool</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Deletion of my computer picture collections (in Digikam)</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Creation of the new NAS picture collections (in Digikam)</font></li></ul><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">However I'm unsure if this is the
safest path/recommended methodology? More specifically, how will digikam figure out that the NAS newly created collections are in fact my old picture collections under a new location?</font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">My picture collection is several 100 Giga bytes large, with tagging of pictures for 6 years now... so relatively sizeable thing and <u>I don't want to loose my tags</u>. Most of them are stored within the pictures, but there are still the raws...</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Any advice would be much appreciated thank you!</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman',
'new york', times, serif">Nicolas.</font></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; position: fixed; "></div>
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