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

[Stephan Olbrich]

Am Sonntag 23 November 2008 22:40:30 schrieb Gilles Caulier:
> 2008/11/23 Stephan Olbrich <stephanolbrich at gmx.de>
>
> > Am Samstag 22 November 2008 17:02:56 schrieb Mikolaj Machowski:
> > > Dnia Saturday 22 of November 2008, Markus Spring napisał:
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately off-line manager is only in TODO list. You can create
> > > thumbnails, tag them according to disk location and originals store on
> > > separate harddisks.
> >
> > so digikam 0.10 will still remove all pictures from the database, which
> > are currently not available?
>
> No. with removable media, all still in database.
>
> Database interface have been fully re-written by Marcel with KDE4 version.
> behaviours is completly different now.

This sound great! What additional functionality will the mentioned offline 
manager add?

Stephan