[Digikam-users] Saving photos for new centos 5 inclusion.

[Richard E Miles]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:38:40 +0200
Gerhard Kulzer <gerhard at kulzer.net> wrote:

> Am Wednesday 25 April 2007 schrieb Richard E Miles:
> > I am going to update my system from Centos 4 to Centos 5. I believe Centos
> > 5 is based on Fedora 6.
> >
> > What and how should I save my Photos to insure that I can install the
> > Centos 4 photos on Centos 5.?
> >
> > I would greatly appreciate your help.
> 
> I'm not sure what your question entails. Your photos will alway be compatible 
> with whatever other system, just back them up during the migration. 
> I suppose you use digikam (since you're addressing this ML). To migrate 
> digiKam you also have to backup the digikam3.db file in the digiKam root. 
> After migration restore everything to the same place. Start digikam and 
> configure the Album root path to that place.
> When you currently use an old digikam version (0.7x), starting digiKam in the 
> new distribution will walk you through a database upgrade at first start.
> 
> Hope that helps
> Gerhard
> 
> 
Thank you for your answer. I will backup the Pictures directory which contains 
those files and I should be good to go. I am assuming that digikam root pertains to that directory.


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Richard Miles
Federal Way WA. USA
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