[Digikam-users] Merge two databases

[Marcel Wiesweg]

> Hello Brano,
> 
> this leads me to the question I have for long time already:
> What data are really stored in the database?
> 
> Really only the meta-data you can write to file?
> That would basically be only tags and comments. Maybe also ratings.
> 
> Also the custom-thumbnails, which are in the tree of the album-view?

Yes, all album / tag icons are stored in the database (and only in the 
database)

> What about the digiKam timestamps?
> Of which I am still not sure what they really are:
> http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-users/2010-June/010653.html

This seems to be creation / modification date stored in the database. They 
will be re-read of course.