[digiKam-users] How to start a completely new and separate digikam from appimage?

[Chris Green]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 06:32:19PM +0100, Maik Qualmann wrote:
> An explanation of the paths. The path to the database is stored in the 
> configuration file or the corresponding database options (network address, 
> port, user, etc.) for a MySQL database. There is currently no album path that 
> is used, if you find such an option, it comes from a very very old 
> configuration. The album root path is stored in the database for each 
> collection. In current digiKam versions, it is very easy to adjust the 
> albumroot path in the collection setup if the collection has been moved to a 
> different drive or similar.
> 
Yes, the only extra issue with moving to a different drive is that if
the original drive is still around digikam will find that one as well
using its UUID.

I had two albums with the same name as a result of this! :-)

It would be handy if one could tell digikam that a collection has been
cloned to another drive such that the only information that changes is
the drive ID and the database keeps the picture data as that won't
have changed.

-- 
Chris Green