[digiKam-users] Moving photos and database files

[jdd at dodin.org]

Le 13/05/2020 à 15:56, noname at fastmail.net a écrit :
> Greetings,
> 
> Linux Mint with 6.4.0 Appimage, I have my photos (230GB) and database 
> files on one hard drive. I would like to MOVE the photos and database 
> files to the cloud (pCloud specifically) but am concerned that I might 
> lose 20 years worth of tags or other photo information.
> 
> Any suggestion for the best way to move everything to the cloud? It 
> seems like I could copy everything there, including the database files, 
> start digikam and point it to the cloud folder. /home/jay/pictures ---> 
> /home/jay/pCloudDrive/pictures . Could it be that simple?
> 
> Thank you and best wishes,
> 
> Jay Rutherford
> 
may work, but it will be desperately slow :-(

anyway if you copy the metadata to images, no loss risk

I do the same, but on an external usb3 disk, it's already a bit slow 
(more than internal ssd!!)

jdd

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