<div dir="ltr">Many MANY thanks to all! And seems like 8.4 is the way to go forward, going forward.<div>Mark D. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 2:54 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">You can simply use your external hard drive. Add it as a removable media drive <br>
in the digiKam settings under Collections. digiKam will scan the hard drive <br>
and all images will be available to you in digiKam.<br>
Due to a bug in digiKam-8.3.0, I recommend using the upcoming digiKam-8.4.0. <br>
There may be problems if you only add the drive letter D: as a collection <br>
without another folder. This bug has been fixed in digiKam-8.4.0.<br>
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<a href="https://files.kde.org/digikam/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://files.kde.org/digikam/</a><br>
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Am Mittwoch, 3. Juli 2024, 16:24:55 MESZ schrieb Mark Dirksen:<br>
> I have installed DigiKam 3.0 on my C:// hard drive and have now imported<br>
> some 2,500 pictures over to it from my D:// drive. Looking ahead, however,<br>
> I'm concerned that I'm making unnecessary work.<br>
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> Can one run DigiKam on / from an external hard drive, meaning that all the<br>
> tags and metadata changes are registered THERE? Or must it run on the<br>
> primary operating system. I see it can't run both places!<br>
> <br>
> If so, hooray! But if so, how can I transfer those 2,500 pix back over to<br>
> D:// with all their metadata intact?<br>
> <br>
> Thanks for your assistance and best practice thoughts.<br>
> Mark Dirksen<br>
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