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

[Mica Semrick]

Have you tried adding the new location as a new collection?

-m

On April 19, 2017 4:05:09 PM PDT, Mark <makigid at saliers.com> wrote:
>I'm following this discussion because I'm trying to decide to commit to
>DK
>or to some commercial solution.
>
>On windows, one thing you might try is to rename the new drive to the
>same
>name as the original (which you will have to rename to something else).
>In
>file explorer you just right click on the drive and select rename. But
>this won't work if DK is using an internal node number or something.
>
>There might be another approach. I see there is a maintenance procedure
>DK
>that will let you write meta file to sidecar files. I wonder if
>(assuming
>your drive can survive) it would be possible to write all your data to
>sidecars and then save the sidecars into the corresponding directories
>on
>the new drive. (freecommander has a good sync tool). Then run the
>opposite
>procedure on the new drive collection to restore the metadata.
>
>The information about maintenance and sidecars is about 3/4 of the way
>down this page:
>
>https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/using-setup.html#using-setup-metadata
>
>The word "sidecar" doesn't appear in the text – only in the screen
>captures so you have to read down the page rather than search for the
>term.
>
>Good luck – will be interested if you find a solution.
>
>Mark
>
>On Tue, April 18, 2017 12:03 pm, BuckSkin wrote:
>> 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.
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