[Digikam-users] Transferring image files and database to new hard drive

[Robert Zeller]

Hi,

I am using a 759 GB disk with an ext4 filesystem to store my pictures
and also music files. Digikam works without any problems on the
ext4-filesystem and speed seems to be ok.

Robert Zeller

On 08/31/2010 09:32 AM, Darren Kirby wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:16 AM, jag59 <jldeshpande at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi,
>> Congratulations for the 1 TB HDD!
>> I think DK is a very reliable and easy to use application for this work.
>> Just reconfigure DK 'Database' and 'Collection' pointing to the new
>> locations.
>> I have successfully copied  my collection from  small partition to another
>> big partition,reconfigured DK as per new locations,confirmed it's
>> healthiness  and then deleted the old data on small partition.
>> At any time the 'datadase file' can be moved to much safer place/position
>> and it's new path to be given in the 'Database'tab so that DK starts with
>> usual time without rebuilding the database
>>     
> Thanks for the reply,
>
> It occurs to me I should probably explain a bit more about the
> structure of my files. The HDD for my images gets mounted directly on
> a directory called 'Pictures' in the top level of my ~user directory.
> At the top level of 'Pictures' lives the digikam4.db file, a few blank
> model/property release documents and other assorted docs relating to
> photography, and two directories, one called 'Film' and one called
> 'Digital' that serve as the root directories of my 2 digikam
> collections. The absolute paths of these whilst mounted would be:
>
> /home/bulliver/Pictures/Digital
> /home/bulliver/Pictures/Film
>
> Now I was thinking I could get away without touching digikam's
> settings at all, as after I have copied the files and mounted the new
> disc they will all live at exactly the same absolute paths as before.
> It is my understanding that a program such as digikam should have no
> knowledge of the underlying file system and disc structure at
> all...and thus would 'just work' at first start after moving the
> files. Is this not correct?
>
>
>   
>> Regarding file system,I am not the authorized person.Till I get 1 TB disk
>> like you,I am forced to continue with my photos on NTFS and their backup on
>> Ext3 having rw rights only for 'root' .
>>     
> You know, I have used ext3 because it is stable and rock-solid, but I
> am strongly considering trying ext4 for the first time to take
> advantage of it's purported speed improvements. Unless someone warns
> against, I think that is exactly what I will do. It will require a
> kernel recompile for me, so I will start this process tomorrow after
> some sleep!
>
>   
>> -----
>> Jagdeesh Deshpande.
>> Registered Linux user #492893
>>
>>     
> Thanks again Jagdeesh!
>
> D
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