[Digikam-users] Re: Albums on USB and the database

[JD Rogers]

Along the lines of what Bartek said, I notice that in the settings the photo
dir can be selected as external media or not. Is it likely that this setting
is what is supposed to prevent your situation?

I also keep the db on the usb drive, but I have been thinking of moving it
to the main drive along with one working album for 'sorting'.
JDR

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Bartek Pietrasiak <pietras.sp at gmail.com>wrote:

> I keep the db and the collection on external usb drive and it works fine.
> I think that you can select some other dir on your external drive as a
> "Collections on removable media" and move all pictures there.
>
> R.,
> Bartek
>
> 2010/12/20 Graham Dicker <graham.dicker at antecor.com>
>
> I am using Digikam 0.10.0 on SUSE 11.1 with albums on an external USB drive
>> and the database on the internal hard drive. If I forget to turn the USB
>> drive
>> on before running Digikam then it removes all the captions and probably
>> other
>> things from the database and I have to restore the database from backup. I
>> don't want to store the captions in the photo files. Is there a sensible
>> way
>> to deal with this problem? Should I store the database on the USB drive as
>> well? Or maybe there's a way to move the collection from "Local
>> Collections"
>> to "Collections on removable media" and if so would that solve the
>> problem? Or
>> something else?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Graham Dicker
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