<div dir="ltr">I have my photos at my network drives imported as network collection, but still I have had the same issue.<div>-Antti</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 9:02 PM Maik Qualmann <<a href="mailto:metzpinguin@gmail.com">metzpinguin@gmail.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">In any case, if a drive is not already present at system startup, like the <br>
local hard drive, you should always use either the collection as removable <br>
media or the network collection (local hard drives it can also be used as a <br>
network collection).<br>
<br>
If images no longer exist in the local collection, they are removed from the <br>
database. We assume that local collections are always present.<br>
You will need to rescan all images. In the digiKam collection settings you can <br>
easily switch to a removable medium collection with the update tool button <br>
(round circle).<br>
<br>
Maik<br>
<br>
Am Montag, 16. Januar 2023, 16:48:45 CET schrieb Jens Benecke:<br>
> Hello all,<br>
> <br>
> I am running the current Digikam 2023-01-05 appimage on KDE Neon (Ubuntu<br>
> 22.04 based).<br>
> <br>
> I have symlinked one subdirectory of my collection to a second harddisk<br>
> because of disk space.<br>
> <br>
> Just now, I started Digikam once without this disk being mounted. After<br>
> closing it, mounting the disk and then restarting Digikam, it started<br>
> rescanning the whole collection (~350 GB of photos). It is still ongoing<br>
> and will probably take an hour or so.<br>
> <br>
> My questions:<br>
> <br>
> 1.) Is there a risk of me losing metadata? I am creating only sidecar<br>
> files, everything else is just in the Digikam DB.<br>
> Image files are never modified.<br>
> <br>
> 2.) Can I avoid this forced rescan somehow, without having to create a<br>
> dedicated "removable disk" collection for this subdirectory?<br>
> Or is this exactly the use case for which collections on removable<br>
> disks were intended?<br>
> <br>
> 3.) If I decide to make this folder a removable disk collection, will I<br>
> lose metadata by redefining it as such in Digikam?<br>
> <br>
> Thanks for any advice!<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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