[KPhotoAlbum] Changing my photo directory structure

[josephj at main.nc.us]

Thank you! I'll try that,  I really don't want to find out how long it
takes to index 25K photos!

Joe
> 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
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