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

Gilles Schintgen gilles at vonet.lu
Wed Apr 5 14:39:32 BST 2006


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------- Additional Comments From gilles vonet lu  2006-04-05 15:39 -------
> 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'd like to slightly amend my proposal. IMO opinion it would be best to store 
such an XML file in *every* subfolder (i.e. album). These XML files would 
only contain the metadata of the pictures contained in the same directory.
Subalbums of such a backup could simply be extracted with konqueror. 
Drag'n'drop would be everything that's needed. So, the backup would consist 
of the current directory hierarchy but with multiple "XML databases" instead 
of a single binary database file.

This would make exporting almost trivial.
Importing would be another matter, but importing is always more complicated, 
since duplicates (pictures, tags, albums) must be handled intelligently.



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