Operating from an external hard drive

[Mark Dirksen]

Many MANY thanks to all!  And seems like 8.4 is the way to go forward,
going forward.
Mark D.

On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 2:54 PM Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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