[Digikam-users] Moving digiKam collection

[Bartek Pietrasiak]

You have probably duplicated the collections because of the import. Try to
restore to backup so that you will be at the time where you had only
C:\t\p\birds\bird photos (== revert all you operations). Then change the
name (not copy) C:\t\p\birds\bird photos to C:\t\p\birds\bird photos2 for
test and start digikam again. Digikam will show a wizard. Put the
C:\t\p\birds\bird photos2 in collection root and digikam database. A few
"Next" and you should have digikam running with collection in new place.

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

> 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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> *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>
>
>> 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.
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Bartek Pietrasiak [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>>
>> 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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