[Digikam-users] Re: How-to move photos to CD/DVD or other external repositories

[jim junk]

select the photos
click Export>Remote computer
click Select target location

I could select my DVD burner but it wouldn't burn the files so you can select some location on your hard drive like your desktop to put them in a folder and then use DVD burning software to burn the DVD.

Not real elegant but it works.

> From: kde at fahrendorf.de
> To: digikam-users at kde.org
> Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 18:23:40 +0100
> Subject: [Digikam-users] Re: How-to move photos to CD/DVD or other external	repositories
> 
> Am Sonntag, 2. Januar 2011 schrieb Juhani Talvela:
> > I'd very much like to burn some of my photos to DVD and store them
> > separately. This would help me to:
> > a) save disk space on my PC
> > b) have an organized library of my photo files in a physical
> > form...  (I would like to take along a DVD every now and then when
> > I go to friends)
> > 
> > But how do I do this? There is an export command in DigiKam that I
> > can use to export pictures to some SmugMug, remote computer,
> > Gallery, iPod, PicasaWeb, etc... But it doesn't include CD/DVD
> > option.
> > 
> > I can of course just burn some pictures on a DVD and just leave
> > them on my PC. But this is not good, since it eats up my disk
> > space. Is there a way for DigiKam to support storing original
> > picutres on a CD/DVD, and just leave a small thumbnail on the
> > database?
> 
> I think this is due to the kind of saving data on a CD/DVD. This type 
> of media is not designed to store a bunch of files but one (or more if 
> you use multi session) iso file. You have to create a iso file first 
> before you can store the data on CD/DVD.
> 
> May be Nautilus (or some other file manager) make this transparently, 
> but this does not change the way files are stored.
> 
> If you want to use removable media like CD your only choice is DVD-RAM 
> which uses a filesystem similar to those on your harddrive.
> 
> This is no limitation by digikam.
> 
> If you have stored your photos on a CD/DVD you can no longer change 
> tags into this files. Access to this files is incredibly slow. So I 
> don't think that it is a good idea to use photos on CD/DVD in digikam.
> 
> The way to go is an external harddisk connected via USB or eSATA or 
> even network. This media can be added with the removable collections.
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Martin
> 
> > 
> > All help and ideas on how to do this are appreciated.
> > Cheers
> > -- Juhani
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