[Digikam-users] Syncing Digikam collections and databases between different computers

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I have also had success with simply moving all my shots around, and having them found (on the same machine).

UUID (in this case) is used to identify *filesystem* not physical disk - I can see no real reason for it here. I like the suggestion of storing only the relative path - might make it more portable for those who move between machines.
Absolute paths might have similar issues to UUID, if to a somewhat less extent.

S

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On Wed, 3/12/14, Gilles Caulier wrote:

 I remember an experience
 few month ago, where i moved my whole
 collection from a 25Gb SDD to a new 512Gb SDD
 on my host linux
 computer.
 
 I simply move all dirs and
 restarted digiKam. Immediately, it detect
 the changes about HDD unit (it do not found
 older SSD and detect new
 one) and a dialog
 ask to see if new device with new UUID is the right
 one.
 
 Note that
 both units (older and newer) have been mounted on the same
 path.
 
 Typically, if this
 detection work fine everywhere, there is no need to
 have an advanced edit mode from Collection
 config dialog.
 
 Note that
 hardware device is delegate to KDE::Solid API. Perhaps
 the
 dysfunction appear in this component.