[digiKam-users] Migrating from Digikam 4 to 6

[Gilles Caulier]

Le sam. 16 janv. 2021 à 14:01, J D <angrdtsk at gmail.com> a écrit :
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> Hi,
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> I lately installed a new Linux distribution, and along with that change, got new version of Digikam (4 -> 6.4). How can I import the meta-data created using the old one to the new one?
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> The meta-data is in a database file. I don't like the idea of embedding it into the picture files because that way, changes in meta-data would mean changes in picture files, and that would complicate making back ups.

If you use XMP sidecar files (See option in DK/Setup/Metadata panel),
you will not touch image files as well.

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> I found a dialog for migration in the new Digikam, but got immediately confused, as it seems to require me to move (or copy, that was unclear) the pictures from a directory to another along with the migration. There are roughly 35000 pictures taking 475 GB of space so proceeding with that dialog is not something I will try before I know better what is going happen and why.

In all cases, if you use database migration tool, do not migrate to
6.4 release, but to 7.2. release candidate available here :

https://files.kde.org/digikam/

Best

Gilles Caulier