<html><head></head><body>Have you tried adding the new location as a new collection?<br>
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-m<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On April 19, 2017 4:05:09 PM PDT, Mark <makigid@saliers.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">I'm following this discussion because I'm trying to decide to commit to DK<br />or to some commercial solution.<br /><br />On windows, one thing you might try is to rename the new drive to the same<br />name as the original (which you will have to rename to something else). In<br />file explorer you just right click on the drive and select rename. But<br />this won't work if DK is using an internal node number or something.<br /><br />There might be another approach. I see there is a maintenance procedure DK<br />that will let you write meta file to sidecar files. I wonder if (assuming<br />your drive can survive) it would be possible to write all your data to<br />sidecars and then save the sidecars into the corresponding directories on<br />the new drive. (freecommander has a good sync tool). Then run the opposite<br />procedure on the new drive collection to restore the metadata.<br /><br />The information about maintenance and sidecars is about 3/4 of the way<br />down this page:<br /><br /><a href="https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/using-setup.html#using-setup-metadata">https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/using-setup.html#using-setup-metadata</a><br /><br />The word "sidecar" doesn't appear in the text – only in the screen<br />captures so you have to read down the page rather than search for the<br />term.<br /><br />Good luck – will be interested if you find a solution.<br /><br />Mark<br /><br />On Tue, April 18, 2017 12:03 pm, BuckSkin wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> I looked for my answer in the "Handbook" but could not find it.<br /><br /><br /> I have many "collections" in DigiKam that are all on an external<br /> hard-drive that has become questionable in it's integrity; thus, I have<br /> copied all of my image files to a new drive.<br /><br /> The old drive still remains connected because there are many other things<br /> besides pictures stored on it.<br /></blockquote><br /><br /></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>