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Thanks for all your suggestions. After installing a fresh copy of Digikam on the new PC and coping all pictures, I found that if I copied the following files to the new PC all the files and tags where there (some may not be necessary):</div>
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digikam-4.db</div>
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digikamrc</div>
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recognition.db</div>
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similarity.db</div>
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thumbnails-digikam.db</div>
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The .db files were copied to the Pictures directory</div>
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digikamrc file was copied to c:\users\[fill-in your username]\appdata\local</div>
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The pictures and tags were all there but for some reason in Digikam, I still had to go into Settings > Collections and update the path to the pictures to avoid an error of not finding the picture directory.</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Digikam-users <digikam-users-bounces@kde.org> on behalf of Rafael Linux User <rafael.linux.user@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 28, 2022 2:20 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <digikam-users@kde.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [digiKam-users] Moving Digikam to new Windows PC</font>
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<div>Many, many thanks KRODER</div>
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<div>By myself, and as no one replied, I located that file in Windows, but I didn't know if the Linux one ".rc" file will be compatible with Windows, that's why I finally scanned all images again (2 days scanning) losing tags, flags, etc ... it's a pity that
kind of issues are not documented.<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">El mié, 27 jul 2022 a las 23:07, KRODER Gerhard (<<a href="mailto:gerdst1@gmail.com">gerdst1@gmail.com</a>>) escribió:<br>
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<p>AFAIK you would need to copy also digicamrc (somewhere in your win %appdata% structure, depends on win version, mabe look at "local").</p>
<p>If you have a different path setup on new win system, lets say for for db and fotos, you would need to edit this in rc file, (and an other config file, i do not yet remember). By this you can manage to move all dk an foto file to any path, and start with
previous resulst existent. (-->"portable")<br>
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<p>cheers, <br>
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<div>Am 27.07.2022 um 22:21 schrieb Rafael Linux User:<br>
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<li>From Digikam, I took note from type of database (Internal MySQL) and where it was located<br>
</li><li>I copied to USB the entire folder where database is located (a folder called "Digikam DB" where there are some ".db" extension files.</li></ol>
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<li>I copied folder from USB used in previous PC<br>
</li><li>In Digikam, I configured database options to "Internal MySQL" and pointed to copied folder</li></ol>
<div>The first issue I observed, is that despite I locate MySQL binaries and Digikam shows them as correct, each time I reopen DB configuration, binary (executable) MySQL files appears as not located ....</div>
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<div>Anyway, I launched Digikam and immediately it shows an error (I can't remember exactly what was, but DB related).</div>
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<div>Finally, I scanned again ALL my 20K photos cause no one replied to my question in KDE - Digikam forum.</div>
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<div>Thank you<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">El mar, 26 jul 2022 a las 21:44, jim kidder (<<a href="mailto:jim_kidder@hotmail.com" target="_blank">jim_kidder@hotmail.com</a>>) escribió:<br>
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Hello,</div>
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Can you tell me the process of moving from one PC to another without losing any pictures, tags, and other configurations?</div>
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Thanks,
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