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

[Marcel Wiesweg]

> > This screenshot wil resume the setup in KDE4 version of digiKam:
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> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/3038025046/sizes/o/
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> Looks promising!
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> What is the right way to move the pictures into those removable media
> collections? In case of a hard disk it's simple, mount it and move inside
> digikam, but how to do it with DVD's

Digikam uses a checksum (of parts of the file) to recognize identical images. 
So create your disk and add it as a collection. Digikam should see that it 
knows those images, and copy the metadata. (All other behavior is a bug).
Note that Cds/DVDs will not have a UUID available for identification, so set a 
unique label when creating it in your burning application.

There is no data structure so far that digikam knows that a certain file is a 
copy/backup of another file, so if you edit metadata of the original the 
backup file's metadata will currently not be adjusted. This functionality is 
not going to be implemented in the near future (it might be easy to implement 
keeping files with identical checksums in sync, though)

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