[digiKam-users] database pointed at subset of same files in rearranged folders

[Remco Viëtor]

On vendredi 22 février 2019 23:49:25 CET Ty Mayn wrote:
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>     I have seen preservation behavior even where an old collection is
> hidden by renaming, then unloaded, then replaced by loading a different
> collection with absent files, then pointing to a new pattern of folders and
> files that returns the missing files for inclusion ( rearranged folders).
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Collections on a network or removable drive can be temporarily unavailable 
(through accident or design). Throwing away the database records for such 
collections would be, let's say, unfortunate, especially when it concerns raw 
files (which do not contain user-added keywords, captions etc.)

Remco