[digiKam-users] Moving photos and database to cloud

[noname at fastmail.net]

Thank you, Andrew. In digikam I have added a new collection on the cloud drive, which digikam recognizes as a local hard drive. I can do everything there that I can on my main hard drive. After doing some testing on the laptop with a disposable set of albums, I have successfully migrated the photos and database files to the cloud drive and things are normal as far as I can tell.

I do take your advice to heart, though, and am still exploring how everything fits together. Thanks.

Jay

On Thu, May 14, 2020, at 16:35, Andrew Goodbody wrote:
> On 13/05/2020 14:48, Jay wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Do please note that using a sqlite database on a remote drive is 
> specifically warned against. This sort of configuration is extremely 
> vulnerable to network issues and that could easily lead to database 
> corruption. It is not supported by the developers and you would be 
> completely on your own if you choose to do it despite their warnings.
> 
> Andrew
>