<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Exporting to a Zip file should allow you to move a single file (however big) to a new machine. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/tellico/tellico/exporting.html#exporting-zip">https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/tellico/tellico/exporting.html#exporting-zip</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Robby </div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 3, 2024, at 10:11, Xavier Brochard <xavier@alternatif.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>Images are in your personal directory (under /home), in a folder next to the </span><br><span>Tellico database file. The image's folder name is usually the same name as your </span><br><span>Tellico database file.</span><br><span></span><br><span>On your old laptop, launch Tellico as usual. </span><br><span>You may have launched it from the application menu (or screen) or from the </span><br><span>database file (a file in your personal folder with the Tellico icon on it) in </span><br><span>your file manager. </span><br><span>- In the first case (you launched Tellico through the app menu), check the </span><br><span>settings of your database, there you will see where the Tellico database file </span><br><span>is located.</span><br><span>- In the last case, you obviously knows where the Tellico database file is </span><br><span>located.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Now, you should find the database image's folder next to the database file in </span><br><span>your file manager. </span><br><span></span><br><span>Have a good day</span><br><span>Xavier</span><br><span></span><br><span>Le jeudi 3 octobre 2024, 18:21:20 CEST Ian McCulloch a écrit :</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hi,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I have just bought a new laptop, and I want to transfer an existing Tellico</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>book catalogue to it. I exported the database to xml on my old laptop, then</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>imported the xmlfile on my new laptop. This was when I realised that the</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>images (book covers) are stored separately, and that they hadn't been</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>copied across.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>My question is, where are the images on my old laptop, and can I copy them</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>to the same place on my new laptop so that they connect with the book</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>records? The Image Storage Options in my original Tellico setup are "Store</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>images in common application directory" but poking around in /usr hasn't</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>been fruitful. As you may have guessed, I don't know that much about Ubuntu</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>and how it works, despite using it for about 15 years. I'm running Tellico</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>3.5.3 on Ubuntu 24.04.1.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I'm guessing that if I had the settings as "Store images in data file" I</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>wouldn't have had this problem, so it would be good to have it set up that</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>way on the new laptop. There are about 1,000 book records, so I'm reluctant</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>to do anything that means a separe operation for each record.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Thanks in advance for any help.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Ian</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><div><signature.asc></div></div></blockquote></body></html>