[Digikam-devel] [Bug 103201] Wish: easy transport of albums, including tags, comments, etc.

[Gilles Schintgen]

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------- Additional Comments From gilles vonet lu  2006-04-05 15:29 -------
> I envision an export function that could work something like:
> Choose a series of photos, by tag, by album, by whatever.
> Choose Export digiKam Archive.
> Choose a destination directory.
> Choose options like preserve album hierarchy.
> digiKam then generates
> * a meta-data file (SQL dump or similar) for each photo in the set
> * a tarball containing the images and meta-data file.

I'm not sure about creating a tarball. Personally, I'd prefer to have a folder 
containing the images (organized by albums) and an XML file with the 
metadata. I could then store this folder on a CD-R and access the pictures 
with any program, while still being able to import the pictures on another 
computer. You'd lose some flexibility by "hiding" the images in a tarball.
If you really needed to have a single file containing everything you could 
still create a tarball from that folder.

> Combined with the concept of md5/sha1 hashes of each file, duplicate
> detection becomes possible (only import files that aren't in the digiKam db
> already for instance).  Must file that md5 idea some day.

See wish #110066.
There's no mention yet of using MD5 sums to identify duplicates.