[digiKam-users] Migration of DigiKam to new PC

[Paul Marfell]

Success!

The new PC has arrived. I have installed Ubuntu 19.10 and the important
applications - including DigiKam from AppImage. I copied image files from
the old PC, created a mount point in home/Pictures, pointed DigiKam at it
and hey presto.

The "Nature" tag parent has the children I was hoping for so ALL IS GOOD.
This was my major worry which had an easy fix anyway - if it hadn't worked
I would have spent a tedious few minutes moving the tags.

I did somehow manage to create a recursive symlink so the same images were
showing in /Photos/ then in /Photos/Photos/ and /Photos/Photos/Photos/
Deleting the symlink fixed that.

I'm amazed at the improvement in performance on the new PC so I am a happy
chappy.

I am, at the moment, using DigiKam solely for its cataloguing functionality.

Thanks

Paul

On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 at 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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