migrating from 4 to 5 and no database usable

[Chris Green]

jdd <jdd at dodin.org> wrote:
> Le 22/12/2016 à 19:27, Chris Green a écrit :
> 
> > Absolutely, but why can't Dokuwiki
> 
> I guess you mean Digikam
> 
Oops, yes, I use both.  :-)


> keep the data in both places.
> 
> it can, even in sidecar files
> 
>   Keep
> > it in the image files for security
> 
> this may be very unsecure if the images are to be shared, many sensitive 
> data can be stored in metadata
> 
Ah, different sort of security.

Yes, I agree that if you export images you might want to remove some
of the metadata but surely that could become part of the export
process. 

By 'security' I meant not losing any information associated with the
picture.  A database corruption could lose the data if it wasn't also
in the imagae file.

-- 
Chris Green
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