<div dir="auto">Thanks for the response. All meta data is written to files. All I need now is for the new PC to be delivered. I have no worries for when it does.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Paul</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 11 Nov 2019, 20:48 woenx, <<a href="mailto:marcpalaus@hotmail.com">marcpalaus@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi, <br>
<br>
If I were you, considering you have those photos stored locally, I'd save<br>
all metadata to the files (or to xmp sidecars) and let digikam rebuild the<br>
database on the new installation.<br>
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If I understand correctly, until now you used the Organizer in Photoshop<br>
Elements. Is there a way to force that software to write all metadata to<br>
files? I have not personally used that organizer, but a tag hierarchy I made<br>
in Adobe Lighroom was preserved in Digikam (and viceversa). If the metadata<br>
includes the hierarchy, digikam should recognize it and recreate it, just<br>
like you had it before. <br>
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It shouldn't more complicated than that. <br>
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About the categories... the first principle of a category system is that<br>
they have to exhaustive and mutually exclusive. At the end of the day, the<br>
best way of categorizing things is the one that works for you. Personally, I<br>
have a structure tree for places<br>
(Places/Country/Province/Municipality/Village) and another one for People<br>
(mostly flat, except for a few groups of people, like coworkers, people from<br>
the university, etc. and some day I'll try to hierarchize relatives). Your<br>
categories for nature seem fine. I guess the more elements you have, the<br>
more specific the categories would become (e.g. Lepidoptera instead of<br>
Butterflies), but as I said, do what better suits your needs. Just bear in<br>
mind that modifying something near the root of the category tree will imply<br>
changing metadata for all elements of that tree.<br>
<br>
Tell us how it went :)<br>
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