[KPhotoAlbum] Changing my photo directory structure

[Johannes Zarl]

On Friday 09 March 2012 12:38:37 Constantin Orăsan wrote:
> > I have my photos that are managed by KPhotoAlbum stored in
> > /media/rm0ldata/data/Rita/Rita_Images/Olympus/
> > 
> > I want to change it to
> > /media/rm0ldata/data/Rita/Rita_Images/Photos with Olympus as a
> > subdirectory along with subdirectories for my new camera, etc.
> > 
> > Is there anything I have to do other than just create the new directory
> > structure and point KPhotoAlbum at it?
> > 
> > Will KPhotoAlbum have to rescan my whole large collection after I do
> > this, and will all my tags in the database be preserved?
> 
> I believe if you do not change both the file (i.e. different checksum)
> and the file name (or the the location) at the same time there should
> be no problems. When you start kphotoalbum, it should be able to find
> the images and assign the old tags. So in your case, it should work
> without problems.
> 

Alternatively (If you want to skip the whole rescan of the database), you can 
alter the existing database file to match the new setup:

sed 's#file="#file="Olympus/#g' Olympus/index.xml > index.xml

Disclaimer: Although it should work, I didn't actually test this. I would 
recommend keeping a backup of the old database (and maybe of your 
kphotoalbum.rc) ready in case something "interesting" happens...

  Johannes