[Digikam-users] Moving digiKam collection

[Bartek Pietrasiak]

Can you tell me the path to main collection and the path to database? (can
be found in settings). Please update to 1.0.0. Beta5 is quite old, with many
bugs.

2010/1/7 Peter Shute <pshute at nuw.org.au>

> I'm trying method 2, as I don't want to trust the new disk completely just
> yet. As soon as I created the new collection, the CPU went to 100% and it
> has been that way for at least an hour.  I expect it is importing all the
> photos again.  It would be nice if it gave some indication of progress.
>
> I read somewhere that it should recognise them as duplicates, and should
> apply the same tags.  True?  If not, then I might try method 1.  How does
> one activate the wizard?  Does it come up automatically when it can't find
> the files in the collection?
>
> Hopefully there are no bugs in 1.0.0 beta5 that affect this.
>
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> From: Bartek Pietrasiak [pietras.sp at gmail.com]
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> Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] Moving digiKam collection
>
> 1. Just move the root directory of you collection (can be found in
> settings) to a new location, start digikam and point the new directory and
> the db file (which is in root dir by default) in the wizard.
> 2. Copy instead of move and point new local collection and db in settings
> (I didn't try that way)
> 3. You can have pictures on both disks. Add a new local collections in
> settings and you can move some/all to this new one using digikam only
>
> Make a backup ...
>
> 2010/1/6 Peter Shute <pshute at nuw.org.au<mailto:pshute at nuw.org.au>>
> I've run out of room for photos on my hard drive, and have added a new one.
>  What's the best way to move all the existing photos to this drive, without
> losing the tags, etc?
>
> Should I bother moving the database as well, or is performance better if
> it's on a separate drive?  What about the thumbnails? I currently have these
> in the same directory the collection is in.
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