New user needs help migrating from Fototime software

[Frédéric Da Vitoria]

Unfortunately, it wouldn't work because what Digikam calls albums are 
actually folders (IOW directories).

Le 29/10/2023 à 00:34, Dimitri Moursellas a écrit :
>
> Yes, I’ve already done what you said and it worked just fine for 
> individual photos. What is missing is the names of the albums and the 
> descriptions of the albums and the list of photos in each album. I was 
> hoping that could be transferred over via that XML file.
>
> Dimitri
>
> *From:*Digikam-users [mailto:digikam-users-bounces at kde.org] *On Behalf 
> Of *Frédéric Da Vitoria
> *Sent:* Saturday, October 28, 2023 2:52 PM
> *To:* digikam-users at kde.org
> *Subject:* Re: New user needs help migrating from Fototime software
>
> Le 28/10/2023 à 21:06, Dimitri Moursellas a écrit :
>
>     I have been a user of another photo manager software,
>     Fototime/Fotoalbum, for many years. Unfortunately, that company
>     has gone out of business and I am looking for a new software
>     package to migrate to. DigiKam looks pretty good.
>
>     I am hoping to be able to move all the non-metadata data from
>     Fototime to DigiKam and that’s what I need help with. In the
>     DigiKam documentation, there is mention of that possibility by
>     using an XMP file. However, Fototime only exports its data in XML
>     or CSV format. Attached is the data from Fototime for just a
>     single folder in XML format.
>
>     Is there a way to import that XML data into DigiKam? If so,
>     exactly how?
>
> Hello,
>
> I did the exact same migration for the same reason, about one year 
> ago. I did not ask Fototime to export anything, I just told Digikam 
> where the photos were stored and let him fetch the data. By default, 
> Fototime stores the data in the pictures themselves, so Digikam has no 
> problem finding it. You could simply try what I did and see what you 
> get. The only thing which could go wrong is accents in the tags.
>
>
>
> -- 
> Frédéric Da Vitoria


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Frédéric Da Vitoria
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