[digiKam-users] Migration of DigiKam to new PC

[Paul Marfell]

Thanks for the response. All meta data is written to files. All I need now
is for the new PC to be delivered. I have no worries for when it does.

Paul

On Mon, 11 Nov 2019, 20:48 woenx, <marcpalaus at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If I were you, considering you have those photos stored locally, I'd save
> all metadata to the files (or to xmp sidecars) and let digikam rebuild the
> database on the new installation.
>
> If I understand correctly, until now you used the Organizer in Photoshop
> Elements. Is there a way to force that software to write all metadata to
> files? I have not personally used that organizer, but a tag hierarchy I
> made
> in Adobe Lighroom was preserved in Digikam (and viceversa). If the metadata
> includes the hierarchy, digikam should recognize it and recreate it, just
> like you had it before.
>
> It shouldn't more complicated than that.
>
> About the categories... the first principle of a category system is that
> they have to exhaustive and mutually exclusive. At the end of the day, the
> best way of categorizing things is the one that works for you. Personally,
> I
> have a structure tree for places
> (Places/Country/Province/Municipality/Village) and another one for People
> (mostly flat, except for a few groups of people, like coworkers, people
> from
> the university, etc. and some day I'll try to hierarchize relatives). Your
> categories for nature seem fine. I guess the more elements you have, the
> more specific the categories would become (e.g. Lepidoptera instead of
> Butterflies), but as I said, do what better suits your needs. Just bear in
> mind that modifying something near the root of the category tree will imply
> changing metadata for all elements of that tree.
>
> Tell us how it went :)
>
>
>
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