[digiKam-users] how to move to new disk?

[Rafael Linux User]

Thanks for sharing!

El mié., 14 ago. 2019 a las 10:01, Daniel Bauer (<linux at daniel-bauer.com>)
escribió:

>
>
> Am 12.08.19 um 21:51 schrieb ghe2019:
> > The problem of this method is that it is essentially re-creating a new
> > collection at the new path.  All album captions in the old collection
> would
> > be lost.
> >
> > I'm still looking for an easier way to handle this without losing album
> > captions.
>
> I just did that and it was easier than thought:
>
> I copied all files (the complete folder/album tree) to the new disk, and
> also copied
> - digikam4.db and
> - thumbnails-digikam.db
> to a new location on the new disk
>
> Then opened digikam (the old files were already not accessible anymore)
> and entered the path where I saved digikam4.db in settings->database
> (only the path, in my case  /home/daniel/digikam/ )
>
> and went to settings->collections (here: "Sammlungen"), and added the
> path to the photo files top folder.
>
> ... first I thought nothing happens (even wrote a help message to this
> list...), but in fact digikam was reading through all the albums
> obviously comparing to the database. In my case this took a bit more
> than 9 hours... but then everything was as before.
>
> Of course: backup a copy of the database files before you start, just in
> case...
> --
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>
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