[Digikam-users] Export Pictures and Database to a different PC

[Hans Muecke]

Am 27.01.2014 18:04, schrieb jdd:
> Hello,
> 
> I think DigiKam miss some rules/info regarding the database location and
> photo albums. This have little importance for the usual install, but
> have a heavy one when migrating or copying.
> 
> one of the reasons is that it do not sems possible to *exclude* a folder
> from being use by DigiKam.
> 
> I mean, if you have folders
> 
> medias
>   photo1
>   photo2
>   video
>   Audio
> 
> and if you choose "media" as collection location, it's not possible to
> say "video" and "audio" do not have to be indexed by digiKam. It may be
> solved by links, but links are always confusing, specially when a copy
> is planned.
> 
> si one have to keep all the digiKam photos and these only in a sub tree,
> say:
> 
> digiKam
>   photo1
>   photo2
> 
> in this situation, the (sqlite) database can be located in the digiKam
> folder and archived pretty easily
> 
> an other way could be to allow one database per collection

Ok ... since I only copy what I have on a different machine to the same
tree on the main machine, that might be the reason, why it works on my end.

-- 
Talk to you later ... Hans (237 to go)


2014/01/27 18:50
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