<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Philip,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">as mentioned, the thumbnails-digikam.db is speeding up the interactivity of working with large collections, as you especially. If deleting/disabling thumbnails would help you a lot, I’d rather question.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">At some point, missing storage storage is just to be improved by more storage space. You could either upgrade you internal ssd, if the model of the laptop allows for it, or you could add an sd-card-drive permanently - for example with a nifty adapter or so. Gilles defintively knows more details. I think, keeping the databases digikam.db and thumbnails-digikam.db in different locations is not possible currently and the request to have the sqlite databases on your internal drive comes from speed requirements plus from preventing you from starting digikam without having your databases connected. Right Gilles? If so, storing both databases on the nifty-drive would be slower but possible.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">regards</div><div class="">Manuel</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 06.01.2018 um 11:44 schrieb WILDLIFE-HELP A.N. <<a href="mailto:wildlife.help@durham.ac.uk" class="">wildlife.help@durham.ac.uk</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div class="">Yes, my MacBook's SSD storage is very small and 38GB is a large percentage of it. Which is why I keep all images on a external and then copy and paste about 10,000 images from it to tag on laptop then when I'm done I move them back and take a new batch.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div id="x_composer_signature" class=""><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 10.199999809265137px; color: rgb(87, 87, 87);" class="">Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-------- Original message --------</div><div class="">From: <a href="mailto:jdd@dodin.org" class="">jdd@dodin.org</a></div><div class="">Date: 2018/01/06 12:38 (GMT+02:00)</div><div class="">To: <a href="mailto:digikam-users@kde.org" class="">digikam-users@kde.org</a></div><div class="">Subject: Re: Digikam file takes up a lot of space</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><font size="2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><div class="PlainText">Le 06/01/2018 à 11:24, WILDLIFE-HELP A.N. a écrit :<br class="">> Hi JDD,<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> Thank you for the quick response!<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> Yes, it's over 38GB. I have about 400,000 photos<br class=""><br class="">wow... on a 120Gb disk, it's not large :-)<br class=""><br class="">I use an usb3 5Tb disk as archive, it may be possible to have the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">database located there. Not as fast as my usual ssd but manageable<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">(still sqlite)<br class=""><br class="">jdd<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><a href="http://dodin.org/" class="">http://dodin.org</a></div></span></font></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>