[Digikam-users] Using digikam with archived images

[Achim Bohnet]

On Wednesday 15 February 2006 15:03, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> Le Mercredi 15 Février 2006 14:56, terenyi at freemail.hu a écrit :
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm getting out of space on my notebook because the tons of images in my
> > Digikam albums. I would like to write the older images to DVD without
> > losing them from the digikam database.

Mhmm, I'm in the same situation pretty soon too :(
> >
> > I've tried to make symlinks of the images to the DVD disc but Digikam
> > complains about the missing photos and wants to delete them from the db.

As a temporary hack, untested:

	o move all pictures you want on the dvd to common subfolder, e.g. dvd1,
	  with digikam (preserves tags)
	o backup dvd1/ subtree to dvd
	o Just to be sure:
		 mv ~/Pictures/dvd1/  ~/Pictures-on-dvd.bck
		 cp ~/Pictures/digikam3.db ~/digikam3.db.bck

	o mount dvd, as  ~/PicturesDVD1/dvd1/  # ~/PicturesDVD1 has to be writeable
                                                 so can't be on DVD
	o cp ~/Pictures/digikam3.db  ~/PicturesDVD1/
	o start digikam with $HOME/PicturesDVD1  library path.  See comment #8
          http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102412.  Feel free to
	  vote for the wish, despite it's status being RESOVLED :)

when you start digikam with the PicuturesDVD1 library path is will ask to
remove all photos not save on dvd, and when you start with normal library
path it will ask to remove everything you saved on DVD.  but this should be
fine.


Achim
> >
> > Is there any solution for that?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Balázs
> 
> No. A tool must be created for that with support database backup/restore. It's 
> a by task planed for the future.

> 
> You can only backup/restore the complete database using k3b to save the 
> complete album library path. But it's not trivial...
> 
> Gilles Caulier
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