[Digikam-users] Using external media with digikam

[jdd]

Gerhard Kulzer wrote:
> Am Sunday 04 March 2007 schrieb morenews4me at gmx.net:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have an external harddrive, which contains a folder with a lot of
>> photographs. I would like to see this collection in Digikam on my computer,
>> however I want to be able to also see my current collection. Is this
>> possible and how? BTW downloading the external drive to my harddisc is not
>> an option because there is far too little on the internal harddisc. Oh, and
>> I run Digikam 0.9.0 (until Gentoo has something new in Portage).

AFAIK, you can only _import_ your images in the actual digikam. I 
don't know if this mean a raw copy of the images themselves or only 
inclusion of them in the database.

However, this is not handy for a removable media, as said, the 
database will be confused.

It would be a reaaly great thing to have the data base written at some 
place near the photos (we could, for example, have the database file 
on a folder and all the albums on the subfolders) and have digikam 
access only the given database.

This could allow inclusion of a database on a dvd for a true backup 
(read only, of course)

jdd

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