[Digikam-users] Migration problems - Digikam 1.8 to 2.0

[Rinus Bakker]

2011/9/13 KrpaN <bojan007 at gmail.com>

>  On 12. 09. 2011 21:04, Anders Stedtlund wrote:
>
> This is not going to help but I'm just curious. (I might have missed
> something in the conversation...)
>
> Do you really mean that you lose all your tags whenever you upgrade to
> a new version? I can't remember that I ever have had that problem when
> upgrading to a new version.
>
> /Anders
>
>  Yes, I always lose all My Tags when upgrading major version.
>
> On the other hand, my question was probably not set properly. The real
> problem is: how to migrate/transfer the entire digikam scheme (pictures, My
> Tags etc.) from one computer to another, or in Linux, from one user to
> another 8same or different machines). Because, when I copy/move pictures and
> database from one machine to another, tags are lost. Which digikam files
> must be copied/moved in order to proceed further without any loss.
>
> Bojan
>
> Well, that is indeed a complete different question. I did many such
migrations without any problem i.e. from one computer to another, not from
user to user, but that should be not harder.

I am taking here about linux, so I hope you are on linux too

#############################################

locate your db´s:
digikam4.db
thumbnails-digikam.db

and move them where you want them

in your new computer open with gedit ~/.kde/shar/config/digikam.rc


you will find two lines referring to your digikam database. Take care this
point to the place where you moved them.

do the same with your photos, store them on your new computer BUT VERY
IMPORTANT take care the path looks EXCACTLY the same as on your old computer

example /home/Bojan/media/photo/ this means that the name of your drive
where your fotos are stored should be the same as in the former situation,
else you would confuse your database.

start digikam on your new computer.

goto settings->configure digikam->database

and point to the place where you stored it on the new computer and click ok

Now it may complain about albums not found, because of a differen harddisk
id or somthing.
remove the albums, if they are there from settings->configure
digikam->collections and re add them. Take care to add exacly the same
albums as in the former situation.

Now it start rereading everything, and you will probably end up with the
same as you started with. Anyway it always works for me and it is easy to
do.

DONE!
#####################################################

Now, is that common sense?
Any more questions?

Good luck,
Rinus











_______________________________________________
> Digikam-users mailing list
> Digikam-users at kde.org
> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-users/attachments/20110913/6f12aed3/attachment.html>