[Digikam-users] Best method to move the complete photo collection

[cl at isbd.net]

Marie-Noëlle Augendre <mnaugendre at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Metadata are written to files if you choose so: see different options the
> Configuration Menu.
> 
I think you *must* do this, write metadata to files, see below.

> In any case, they are in Digikam database, that is not necessary on the
> same drive as the actual files. For example, I have almost all my pictures
> on external drives, but the database remains in my user folder on the
> internal drive; and Digikam has always access to it, whatever external
> drive is plugged in or not.
> 
Yes, but if you move the pictures the database will no longer be valid
and Digikam will reconstruct it, losing all the metadata in the
database unless it has been written to file as well.

(I really cannot understand why anyone would ever *not* write the
metadata to file)


> As for the complete move of your collections, I have always done this
> outside Digikam, with my usual file manager. This is much faster as Digikam
> doesn't try to keep track of any individual modification. And anyway, it
> will check the entire collections on your new drive.
> 
Yes, absolutely agree, as I'm a command line person I'd use rsync or
even just cp.

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Chris Green
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