[Digikam-users] Migrating Digikam to a clean install of Kubuntu Jaunty

[Gandalf Lechner]

Hi Sava,

you should write all your metadata directly into the image files. Then all 
information is within the images, and you just have to copy the image files to 
the new machine. To do so, you have to tell digikam in its config panel-
>metadata to store metadata in the image, and then use extras->sync all images 
with database. 
However, I think this will not work for raw files, since 0.9.3 (as far as I 
know) has no write support for metadata in raw files. 

I think digikam 0.10 also offers a migration tool which will read the contents 
your old digikam 0.9.3 database into the new one. To use this, you should make 
a backup of your digikam database, the file called something like digikam3.db 
in your top image directory. But I am not sure if you have to set up the paths 
of your image collection in precisely the same way as on the old machine for 
this to work, maybe one of the developers can comment on that.

Best,
Gandalf


On Sunday 03 May 2009 01:26:32 Sava Tatic wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I am upgrading my machine from Kubuntu 8.04 to 9.04 and I am planning to do
> a clean install. As the machine happens to contain my primary Digikam
> installation, I would like to know what do I need to back up and then
> restore on the fresh install of Kubuntu.
>
> Of course, the photos :) But what else, because I'd like to preserve all
> the metadata I've added (tags, rating, geolocation)? My current Digikam
> version is 0.9.3.
>
> All the best,
>
> Sava