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

[David Lindblad]

Hi!

måndagen den 23 mars 2015 19.11.05 skrev  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.

I do not think you must write to the file but you can use sidecar instead or as 
complement. An .xmp file with metadata that can be copied to a new location and 
enterped by DK.

> 
> > 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)

DK do not handle writing metadata to some files, .CR2 par example.

> 
> > 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.
//David