[Digikam-users] Difference between collection types

[gerlos]

On lunedì 08 giugno 2009 14:59:30, Paul Waldo wrote:
> 
> ----- "gerlos" <gerlosgm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On domenica 07 giugno 2009 21:04:39, Paul Waldo wrote:
> > > Pretty darn complicated, but it seems to work.  The only problem now
> > is converting my tags.  I still have the same albums, but they have
> > moved around on the filesystem.  In other words, an album was at
> > /a/b/c, and is now at /d/e/f.  Is there anyway to get Digikam to move
> > the tags to the new location?
> > 
> > If /a/b/c and /d/e/f were seen in digikam as two albums, when you are
> > inside digikam and move images between the two albums (directories),
> > the tags will be preserved.
> 
> Unfortunately, both paths point to the same network share :-(

But I'm sure you can find some smart solution... Apart from symlinks and "mount -o bind /d/e/f /a/b/c", I'm thinking something like:

1. create the new album /g/h/i 
2. move things from /a/b/c to /g/h/i
3. move things back from /g/h/i to /d/e/f, that before was known as /a/b/c

Maybe you already did it, but I can't know and so I'd suggest you to not put your albums in the root of the share, but to use a subdirectory, it could let you do some things in a easier way.

good luck
gerlos

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