<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Great work. Thanks for posting your success story!</div><div dir="auto">Enjoy your new PC.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.</div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000" dir="auto"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Paul Marfell <paul@marfell.me.uk> </div><div>Date: 2019-11-16 5:04 a.m. (GMT-07:00) </div><div>To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <digikam-users@kde.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] Migration of DigiKam to new PC </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Success!</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The new PC has arrived. I have installed Ubuntu 19.10 and the important applications - including DigiKam from AppImage. I copied image files from the old PC, created a mount point in home/Pictures, pointed DigiKam at it and hey presto.<div><br></div><div>The "Nature" tag parent has the children I was hoping for so ALL IS GOOD. This was my major worry which had an easy fix anyway - if it hadn't worked I would have spent a tedious few minutes moving the tags.</div><div><br></div><div>I did somehow manage to create a recursive symlink so the same images were showing in /Photos/ then in /Photos/Photos/ and /Photos/Photos/Photos/ Deleting the symlink fixed that.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm amazed at the improvement in performance on the new PC so I am a happy chappy.</div><div><br></div><div>I am, at the moment, using DigiKam solely for its cataloguing functionality.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>Paul</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 at 20:48, woenx <<a href="mailto:marcpalaus@hotmail.com">marcpalaus@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);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>
<br>
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>
<br>
It shouldn't more complicated than that. <br>
<br>
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>
<br>
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