<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="">Hi Philip,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">the thumbnails-digicam.db is NOT the database containing all the metadata, but stores the thumbnails of your collection (smaller size preview pictures). Thus digicam can even show you previews of pictures located on offline media not connected to your laptop currently. If you are running out of space, you could</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* either store your pictures on external media, after processing them</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I keep my images of the current project on my laptop and move the older ones to an external storage (asides of backup and archiving, of course)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* or, if even this does not help, have digikam show the original pictures and skip generating thumbnails - which might make scrolling through your collection slower and you loose previews of offline collections</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">digikam -> Preferences -> Preview -> Preview shows full picture - is, as far as I remember, the option to make it skip generating thumbnails. You can then delete thumbnails-digicam.db. If it is not regenerated by rescanning your collection on next start, this was the right setting. (Keep in mind: I am using a different interface language, so don’t stick to the letter for the names of the options mentioned before.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">regards</div><div class="">Manuel<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 06.01.2018 um 11:06 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 id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="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; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Hi All,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">I use digiKam to tag camera trap images for research purposes. I run it on macOS Sierra version 10.12.6 with 2.9 GHz i5 processor, 8 GB RAM, and 120 GB hard drive.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">In my database folder there is a file called: "thumbnails-digikam.db" which takes up over 38 GB of space and I am constantly running out of space on my MacBook. I was told that you should not store your database on an external drive. Is this true? If I change the directory of my database to an external hard drive would this affect it in anyway?<br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">What about on Windows OS, can you have the database directory on a external hard drive?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Thank you for your time.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Kind Regards,</div><div id="Signature" class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, Helvetica, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols;" class=""><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;" class=""><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;" class=""><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;" class=""><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;" class=""><font size="2" class="">Philip Faure</font><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">0 (+27) 71 841 8361</div><div class="">0 (+27) 76 236 5892 (WhatsApp)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Community Engagement Officer</div><div class="">Durham University's Primate and Predator Project,</div><div class="">Lajuma Research Centre,</div><div class="">South Africa</div><br class=""><div class=""><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""><i class="">Read<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>our </span><a href="http://primateandpredatorproject.wordpress.com/" id="LPNoLP" class=""><b class=""><font size="3" class="">Blog</font></b></a></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif" class=""><i style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""><font face="Tahoma,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""><i class="">Visit<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>our </span><b class=""><font size="3" class=""><a href="http://community.dur.ac.uk/r.a.hill/primate_and_predator_project.htm" id="LPNoLP" class=""><font class="">Website</font></a><br class=""></font></b></font>Follow</i><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>us on </span><font size="3" class=""><b class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Primate-and-Predator-Project/168026853274442" id="LPNoLP" class="">Facebook</a></b></font></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>