Had to change External Hard Drive; How do I make the change in DigiKam ?

Michael Eschweiler michael.eschweiler at web.de
Wed Apr 19 13:05:21 BST 2017


High BuckSkin,

Which system are you using? If it's Linux, you should disconnect the old
harddisk and use the same mountpoint for the new one. In case you  used
the (semi-)automatic mount, which is provided by many graphical
interfaces like kde, it's more complicated.

Michael

Am 18.04.2017 um 10:03 schrieb BuckSkin:
> I looked for my answer in the "Handbook" but could not find it.
> 
> I have many "collections" in DigiKam that are all on an external hard-drive
> that has become questionable in it's integrity; thus, I have copied all of
> my image files to a new drive.
> 
> The old drive still remains connected because there are many other things
> besides pictures stored on it.
> 
> How do I disassociate Digikam from the old drive and point DigiKam to the
> new drive without having to add all of my collections all over again ? 
> 
> I looked in "settings" for a means to accomplish this, but if the ability is
> there I could not understand the terminology.
> 
> Thanks for reading.
> 
> 
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