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<p>Apart from archiving, I keep a small directory tree of ALL
pictures, downsized to 1024 typically, on the laptop or desktop.
Small and easy to re-sync to another machine.</p>
<p> It has all the tags and captions I need to search, and once I
found a few for whatever purpose, either those are enough, or I'll
have to dig through the DVDs. <br>
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<p>There's pretty good software around to archive DVD collections,
though I still use good old updatedb, the one that the locate
command works on your local disk. I then have a blocate script
that tells me on which disk/DVD those files are, that's a simple
script looping over all *db files. Here's the writeup and some
code what I've been doing for the past 10+ years:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/teuben/teunix/tree/master/Backup">https://github.com/teuben/teunix/tree/master/Backup</a><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/22/24 20:43, Mark wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I am on Ubuntu 22.04 with
DigiKam 7.5.0 and Windows with Digikam 8.2.0.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">It seems that there used to
be a built-in tool for archiving photos to DVD but I cannot
seem to find it. Does it still exist? If not, what are others
doing? On Ubuntu I did install the k3b disk burning package.<br>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">My planned workflow:
Eventually hard disks fill and files can be moved off for long
term storage. Would want Digikam to know the DVD disk name and
store that so that I can readily access those files later.
Since the image files have been burned to one or more disks
(of the same name) they can then be deleted from the hard
drive to make room for more.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">All help / ideas appreciated!
Am new to Digikam but used Canto DAM for many years before
they sold the particular product to another who later went
belly up, permanently ending support!</div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Mark<br>
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