Operating from an external hard drive

[Maik Qualmann]

You can simply use your external hard drive. Add it as a removable media drive 
in the digiKam settings under Collections. digiKam will scan the hard drive 
and all images will be available to you in digiKam.
Due to a bug in digiKam-8.3.0, I recommend using the upcoming digiKam-8.4.0. 
There may be problems if you only add the drive letter D: as a collection 
without another folder. This bug has been fixed in digiKam-8.4.0.

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

Maik

Am Mittwoch, 3. Juli 2024, 16:24:55 MESZ schrieb Mark Dirksen:
> I have installed DigiKam 3.0 on my C:// hard drive and have now imported
> some 2,500 pictures over to it from my D:// drive.  Looking ahead, however,
> I'm concerned that I'm making unnecessary work.
> 
> Can one run DigiKam on / from an external hard drive, meaning that all the
> tags and metadata changes are registered THERE?  Or must it run on the
> primary operating system.  I see it can't run both places!
> 
> If so, hooray!  But if so, how can I transfer those 2,500 pix back over to
> D:// with all their metadata intact?
> 
> Thanks for your assistance and best practice thoughts.
> Mark Dirksen