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

[Maik Qualmann]

And exactly this point is easily possible. Go to the collection setup, click 
on the update button in the old collections and select the new directory. All 
metadata is preserved, drive UUID and path are updated. Of course, the album 
substructure must be identical.

Maik

Am Dienstag, 26. November 2019, 19:52:31 CET schrieb 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.