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

[Maik Qualmann]

Maybe a little warning again. Of course, the album structure must exist on the 
new album root path, otherwise the database will be built with the new 
structure.

Maik

Am Dienstag, 26. November 2019, 21:26:26 CET schrieben Sie:
> 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.