[Digikam-users] Moving digiKam collection

[Peter Shute]

The main collection and database are both in C:\t\p\birds\bird photos.

The new collection is in P:\photos\birds. I copied the files there outside of digiKam then imported them.

I didn't time the import of the duplicated images, but it took a few hours. I was able to roughly track its progress by watching the database double in size, not something you could normally do.

A few random photos I checked have indeed inherited the tags and ratings of the original copies of the photos, an excellent result. So I guess all I need to do is disassociate the main collection with the original files, but that can wait a while.

I would love to upgrade to the released version, but I'm using KDE on Windows, and I can't work out how. I think I need to download the source and compile it, but haven't had any luck with that so far.


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From: Bartek Pietrasiak
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Sent: Thu Jan 07 21:28:54 2010
Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] Moving digiKam collection

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<mailto: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<mailto:pietras.sp at gmail.com>]
Sent: Thursday, 7 January 2010 11:09 AM
To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source
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><mailto: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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