[digiKam-users] Moving digikam database - or can I let it get rebuilt?

[Peter Teuben]

Look at your ~/.config/digikamrc file for references to your strange 
location. Probably just edit that manually, copy your digikam4.db (and 
related!) files,  and move those files in a Backup directory to ensure 
you don't refer to them.

that should do the trick.   for me i see:


grep Pictures ~/.config/digikamrc
Database Name=/home/teuben/Pictures/
Database Name Face=/home/teuben/Pictures/
Database Name Similarity=/home/teuben/Pictures/
Database Name Thumbnails=/home/teuben/Pictures/
Last Image Path=/home/teuben/Pictures/

My db files is pretty big, rebuilding it from scratch would probably 
need an overnight run.


On 5/29/20 1:55 PM, Chris Green wrote:
> My digikam database (for historical reasons) is in a rather strange
> place in a directory all by itself that doesn't get backed up by my
> standard backups.
>
> So, I'd like to move it, how does one set about this?  Can I just copy
> the database (it's sqlite3 so it is just a single file) and tell
> digikam where it has been moved to?  Or is it more complicated than
> that?
>
> Or would it be simpler just to get Digikam to build a new database
> from the metadata in my image files?  I.e. if I just give digikam the
> location of the new database will it just rebuild it?  I know it will
> take quite a while but that doesn't really matter.
>
> Oh, this is digikam 6.4 appimage running on Linux.
>