[Digikam-users] Re: Changing Digikam environment

[Marie-Noëlle Augendre]

2010/10/24 Martin (KDE) <kde at fahrendorf.de>

> Am Samstag, 23. Oktober 2010 schrieb Marie-Noëlle Augendre:
> > I intend to switch quite soon from Ubuntu to Fedora (Digikam 1.5 is
> > already available with this distro).
> > This will be the first time I'll desinstall a system to put another
> > one in its place. Is there anything I should know before doing
> > that, or will Digikam work "straight out of the box" with the new
> > distribution and my current images?
>
> If your path to the photos and your home files do not change, you will
> not see any difference, it will run out of the box.
>
> If you loose your home data, you loose all data only stored in the
> digikam database only (like tags that are not stored in the photos
> itself - this can be enabled/disabled in the configuration).
>

I'd rather re-partition the disk, and go for ext4 instead of ext3 in the
process. So, I guess I'll have to save the whole /home data, then reload
them after the new distro installation.
How will it go with Digikam?


>
> >
> > Additionally, as I will have two different computers with the same
> > distribution, can I move my images and database to an external
> > drive so I can use it with either computer?
>
>
>
> So, for your external drive you can configure your digikam to store the
> database to the external drive side by side with the photos. But
> digikam will not work, if the external hard disk is not attached. If
> you want/have to share your photos with others (like family members)
> it may be a good idea to setup a small server for sharing not only
> photos.
>
> Martin
>

I don't have to share with anybody.
Just thinking about the most convenient way to use one photos base with two
different computers. Obviously, one will be more used than the other one;
but they could be using different distro and/or Digikam versions at the same
time, as I could use one for testing before upgrading the other for example.

Marie-Noëlle



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