[digiKam-users] How To Tell DigiKam That Image Files Have Moved?

Randy Wolf randy.wolf at gmail.com
Thu Feb 2 15:02:01 GMT 2023 

Best practice is to move files around from within Digikam, I believe.

See a previous thread where people expressed their workflows. Some good
ideas in there. One that I use is to have an incoming location where all my
photos get dumped after a "shoot", then I use Digikam tag, face tag, edit,
etc. and then move them out to my preferred physical location from within
Digikam. I never move things around in file explorer outside of Digikam
after they've been ingested. Album View is the place to drag and drop
folders... or right click and Move

If you've told digikam to store ALL metadata in your files (or sidecars)
and you've already moved files around outside of Digikam you can probably
just do a 're-scan' and everything would be retained. Tools | Scan for new
items. It'll find your files in their new location (make sure you've got
the new location somewhere in your collections paths). Setting | Configure
Digikam | Collections

Otherwise if you've already moved things around outside of digikam and the
metadata is only stored in the database then I think the manual fixup is
your best bet.



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>    4. Re:  A question about management across digikam on mac and
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> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 09:49:11 -0500
> From: Robert DiGrazia <daycandle at gmail.com>
> To: digikam-users at kde.org
> Subject: [digiKam-users] How To Tell DigiKam That Image Files Have
>         Moved?
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> DigiKam 7.9.0
> Windows 7
>
> Each record in the thumbnails database contains a pointer to the
> thumbnails' associated image files.
> E.g. this appears in FilePaths for one of my thumbnail records:
> Q:/Photo/ScannedFilm/P3S41.tif
>
> I gather that if I move the image files, I have to change the FilePaths
> entries.
> The only way I know to do this is to dump the database, edit the dump,
> and restore the database.
> E.g. if I move my files to folder R:/Photos/, I can change the FilePaths
> to the new folder name.
> That seems simple enough, though tedious, and one is unlikely to move
> the images often.
> Even so, is there a way to tell DigiKam to make the changes throughout
> the database?
> I.e. in my example, can I tell DigiKam to change all instances of
> "Q:/Photo/ScannedFilm" to "R:/Photos"?
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> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2023 14:17:11 +0100
> From: mk2004 at mailbox.org
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> Hello all,
> I want to rename many photos in digikam.
> Can I do it with exiftools-scripts directly in the digikam directory?
> Or does that make a mess in the digikam database?
>
> Greetings
> Monika
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> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 14:26:32 +0100
> From: "Bruno B." <nonobio at gmail.com>
> To: digikam-users at kde.org
> Subject: [digiKam-users] Restore Digikam settings
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> Hello :) ,
>
> I just installed Digikam on a new Windows PC and I want to restore my
> settings from my old one where Digikam.
>
> I restored my database files and it works fine, but is it possible to
> restore all settings like GUI settings, etc. ? If yes, where are located
> these settings files?
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> Thanks :)
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> From: Sebastian Beer <sebastian.beer66 at icloud.com>
> To: Bill Allen <dk at ballen.fastmail.fm>
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> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] A question about management across
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> Hello,
>
> I also have a huge amount of photos stored on my MacBook and organized by
> DigiKam. I sync them to my NAS. Synology provides an iOS app for photos on
> the NAS.
> This might be a solution for you.
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
>
> Sebastian Beer
>
> > Am 15.01.2023 um 19:32 schrieb Bill Allen <dk at ballen.fastmail.fm>:
> >
> > I've got thousands of images that I manage on my mac that I've got
> organized into folders. I've tagged all the images using DigiKam which
> writes those tags to the images themselves. I use an iPhone and iPad and
> would like to share those images on those devices, but as far as I can tell
> the only supported way to do that is to import them into Apple Photos which
> takes over all management from that point on as it loads the photos into
> its own database which 1) isn't accessible by digiKam, 2) basically
> invalidates the folder organization that I've got. I know that Photos on
> the mac allows one to "import" while retaining the file structure, but that
> misses the point since I still won't see those images on the IOS devices
> unless they are actually imported into the Photos DB.
> >
> > I should note that my folders are all stored on iCloud so in principle
> they're available on IOS via the files application, but that provides no
> ability to search by tags, date, etc. which was the point of tagging and
> dating them in the first place. What I'd love to find is an IOS application
> that "imports" the images from iCloud, which actually leaving them in place
> so if I make edits on the mac, they are there. Needless to say since I'm
> writing this that I haven't found any such application, but I'd love to be
> proven wrong.
> >
> > The only solution that I've come up with is to basically just give up on
> the notion and export photos from DigiKam to a folder on my mac and import
> them to Apple Photos which will make them available to my IOS devices, but
> not allow for any updating other than an export/import cycle.
> >
> > I can't imagine that many people have read this far, but if you have and
> have some insight I'm missing I'd love to hear it.
>
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> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 21:11:28 -0000
> From: syv at 911networks.com
> To: digikam-users at kde.org
> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] How to integrate darktable and digikam
> Message-ID: <20221222211128.649d4af8 at frogguski.911networks.com>
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> On Thu, 22 Dec 2022 22:02:45 +0200
> kaizubg at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > to, 2022-12-22 kello 19:35 +0000, digikam at 911networks.com kirjoitti:
> >
> >
> > > What I'm looking for is to use a different darktable library that
> > > I have setup, just to open images from DK.
> > >
> >
> > OK thanks. Just out of curiosity, what do you gain with using
> > multiple libraries in dt? Or do you have two differing workflows?
>
> - The default DT library is for my photos
> - The other library is for other people that I help from time to
>   time, about once/month
>
> --
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