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<p>What "album properties" are you referring to?</p>
<p>There are standardized formats for EXIF data, which means it is
possible for digiKam to store metadata about individual photos in
the photos themselves and for that metadata to be read and
utilized by other photo management tools.</p>
<p>In contrast, there is no standard for "album properties," so it's
not feasible for digiKam to store most album properties in a way
that other photo management tools can use.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/30/21 9:44 AM, Chris Green wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I assume that album properties are stored (only?) in the database,
this adds to the difficulty of moving a photo collection maintained
with Digikam.
I wish, I wish, I wish there was a way (as in a single option
somewhere) that would tell Digikam that I want *everything* stored
with the image files so that, if I want to move or copy my photo
collection from computer A to computer B, or from directory A to
directory B I can simply copy the whole directory hierarchy and the
job is done.
It also make backups more difficult as one has to copy the album
hierarchy *and* the database which may be in very different places,
plus how does one guarantee that they are 'synchronized'?
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