<html><head></head><body>Bonjour Gilles,<br><br>Thank you for your advice on this, it helps in making a clear path for going forward now.<br><br>I might raise some specific questions later in separate threads – as appropriate, especially on portable or 'archive' installations.<br><br>Thanks again,<br>Paul<hr><a href="https://PaulANorman.info">https://PaulANorman.info</a><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 April 2023 6:01:00 pm NZST, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Le jeu. 20 avr. 2023 à 09:14, Paul A. Norman <paul@paulanorman.info> a écrit :<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><br> Hi,<br><br> I have been working through the following very helpful tutorial for Digikam establishment under Windows 10 on my own and a few friends' PCs...<br><br> ‘Digikam/Tutorials/Setup of digiKam for Windows compatibility’<br><br> <a href="https://userbase.kde.org/Digikam/Tutorials/Setup_of_digiKam_for_Windows_compatibility">https://userbase.kde.org/Digikam/Tutorials/Setup_of_digiKam_for_Windows_compatibility</a><br><br> On the first machine I successfully upgraded from 7.10 to 8.0.0, and it runs very nicely thank you.<br><br> While noting that the tutorial was prepared under DigiKam 7.4, I was however left concerned by this statement in the above tutorial ...<br><br> “What you need to know –<br><br> <a href="https://userbase.kde.org/Digikam/Tutorials/Setup_of_digiKam_for_Windows_compatibility#What_you_need_to_know">https://userbase.kde.org/Digikam/Tutorials/Setup_of_digiKam_for_Windows_compatibility#What_you_need_to_know</a><br><br> “You have to re-check the Metadata settings every time you update digiKam to a new version, before you resume using digiKam as usual.<br> ★ Currently (digiKam 7.4) you do need to repeat the manual Metadata setting changes after each digiKam update.”<br><br> 1) When I looked at the upgraded 8.0.0, it seemed that the alterations I had made, following the above 7.4 tutorial, (under 7.10), had been retained in the upgrade to 8.0.0.<br><br> —Is that generally so now, or could other changes made under 7.10 have been lost while upgrading to 8.0.0?<br></blockquote><br>I think this stage exists in this tutorial due to changes in settings<br>name renaming internally. I think it's safe with 8.0.0 and later<br>versions.<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><br> 2) Also, are there other things that have changed regarding the tutorial:<br> ‘Digikam/Tutorials/Setup of digiKam for Windows compatibility’<br> since Digikam 7.4, and with recent upgrades of Windows 10 (and what about 11)?<br><br> Any pointers appreciated please before I roll out any more installations under Windows 10 :-)<br></blockquote><br>The only one that i know, because i write it come from the online doc:<br><br><a href="https://docs.digikam.org/en/getting_started/installation.html#digikam-on-windows">https://docs.digikam.org/en/getting_started/installation.html#digikam-on-windows</a><br><br>Best regards<br><br>Gilles Caulier<br></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>