[digiKam-users] Moving photos and database files

[jdd at dodin.org]

Le 13/05/2020 à 21:41, Chris Green a écrit :
> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 11:33:47AM -0700, digikam at 911networks.com wrote:
>> On Wed, 13 May 2020 18:04:34 +0100
>> Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>>
>>> It's also not clear what is meant by 'files' in the above options
>>> and settings, are they image files, sidecar files, or both, or what?
>>
>> Usually, it's not a good idea to write to the image file unless the
>> imagefile is a tiff or a jpeg.
> 
> Mine are JPEG (as come direct from camera), I simply want to be sure
> that *all* my metadata is always in those files so that if I make sure
> they're safe I have all my picture data.  If some data is in a
> database somewhere else that is *much* more difficult to back up
> securely I have a problem.
> 
no problem*

that said, no write to a file is 100% safe. I already sometime find a 
jpeg file half grey because something stopped writing the end of the file

not specially a digikam problem

jdd

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