[Digikam-users] digikam 0.10: How to organize pictures on more than one harddisk

[Marcel Wiesweg]

> Hi list,
> after having gotten accustomed to the new digikam - fine work, lots of
> improvements - I would like to re-organise the storage of my pictures.
>
> Having accumulated 140GB of image files over the last 5 years, I definitely
> need to dispatch some of the more rarely used file onto off-site storage
> space, but I do not want to loose the advantages of administering all my
> files in digikam.
>
> In the handbook I have not found sufficient documentation for this
> approach, so I would be most grateful for a concise description of the
> steps necessary accomplish this goal.
>
> Thanks - Markus

You can do the brave step and do beta testing of 0.10:
add your USB hard disk as a collection (with current svn) and start to move 
your pictures to the disk. The expected behavior is that the collection will 
be shown as soon as you plug in your harddisk, and when moving / copying all 
metadata will be preserved.

You may want to do this with test images first and report any bugs you 
encounter.