[digiKam-users] Moving photos and database files

[Maik Qualmann]

I don't know pCloud, but before you kill your image collection. From an
OpenSUSE forum I know that digiKam does not work with pCloud. DigiKam
requires the files locally or mounted (SMB). Under Windows, we also better
support the UNC network path in digiKam-7.0.0-RC. In addition, the image
collection with the current digiKam version can be easily adapted to a new
image root path. Provided that the underlying directory structure does not
change.

Maik

Am Do., 14. Mai 2020 um 00:07 Uhr schrieb <noname at fastmail.net>:

> Hello,
>
> My thread this morning was redirected to cover another equally interesting
> topic, so I'm back asking the right way to move my 230GB photo collection
> and Digikam database files from a hard drive to the cloud drive,
> specifically pCloudDrive.
>
> I see that I can create a second collection on the cloud drive and
> copy/cut photos and albums from the hard drive collection to the cloud
> drive collection. It works to preserve the metadata. I edited my Digikam
> configuration to write metadata to the "items" only and not the sidecar. (I
> agree that the metadata part of the Digikam configuration could be more
> clear in this respect).
>
> How do I move the Digikam database files to the cloud drive? By doing the
> Database Migration tool as in /home/jay/pictures --->
> /home/jay/pCloudDrive/pictures? That is the remaining question.
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
> Jay Rutherford
>
>
>
>
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