[digiKam-users] Dealing with changing albim root

[Andrey Goreev]

I might be wrong but I think UUID is stored either in one of the digikam's
config files or in .db file.
There should be a way to manually change the UUID so digikam won't even
notice that you migrated to a new drive.
I personally migrated few times and never did it and I don't think I lost
any information.

Best regards,

On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 9:08 AM, g257 <g73500 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> A few days ago I had a disc failure and had to recover from backups - no
> great data loss as far as I'm aware however because that disc held my
> photographs when I restored to a different disc the UUID was different. I
> quickly realised that digiKam needed fiddling and amended the digikam.db to
> change the album root etc. and that seemed to work although I didn't amend
> the thumbnail db so there are a lot of duplicate (and wrong) entries there
> now.
> In this particular instance my main concern was not losing the various tags
> that had been set up over the years and that seems to be OK now.
> I did a search before I started but didn't find anything directly useful
> but
> I do wonder whether there is, or should be, a facility to deal with that
> sort of global change.
> Are there any tools to handle this or better methods than I used ?
>
>
> graham
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