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

[Maik Qualmann]

That's right, they can accept the proposed (old) category, or even tell 
digiKam that the category has changed. So from a local collection to a 
collection on a USB drive or network. After that you can choose the new album 
root path.

Maik

Am Dienstag, 26. November 2019, 21:11:16 CET schrieb Chris Green:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 08:04:23PM +0100, Maik Qualmann wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I can't see an 'update' button, unless you mean that one with pointers
> round in a circle, and that doesn't seem to do what you're saying.  I
> may of course be wrong but it's far from obvious.
> 
> When I go to Collections I see a list of three sorts of collections,
> on the one I'm seeing at the moment only the Local Collections one has
> an entry, called 'pictures'.
> 
> Against 'pictures' there are two buttons to click, one is the rotating
> arrows I refer to above and the other is a dustbin for deleting it
> (presumably).  If I click the two rotating arrows I get a box saying
> "Your collection will use this this category", are you saying this
> will actually *copy* my collection?  It would appear so but I have to
> say it's far from obvious.