Transferring images to a new instance of Tellico

[Robby Stephenson]

Exporting to a Zip file should allow you to move a single file (however big) to a new machine. 

https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/tellico/tellico/exporting.html#exporting-zip

Robby 

> On Oct 3, 2024, at 10:11, Xavier Brochard <xavier at alternatif.org> wrote:
> 
> Images are in your personal directory (under /home), in a folder next to the
> Tellico database file. The image's folder name is usually the same name as your
> Tellico database file.
> 
> On your old laptop, launch Tellico as usual.
> You may have launched it from the application menu (or screen) or from the
> database file (a file in your personal folder with the Tellico icon on it) in
> your file manager.
> - In the first case (you launched Tellico through the app menu), check the
> settings of your database, there you will see where the Tellico database file
> is located.
> - In the last case, you obviously knows where the Tellico database file is
> located.
> 
> Now, you should find the database image's folder next to the database file in
> your file manager.
> 
> Have a good day
> Xavier
> 
> Le jeudi 3 octobre 2024, 18:21:20 CEST Ian McCulloch a écrit :
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have just bought a new laptop, and I want to transfer an existing Tellico
>> book catalogue to it. I exported the database to xml on my old laptop, then
>> imported the xmlfile on my new laptop. This was when I realised that the
>> images (book covers) are stored separately, and that they hadn't been
>> copied across.
>> 
>> My question is, where are the images on my old laptop, and can I copy them
>> to the same place on my new laptop so that they connect with the book
>> records? The Image Storage Options in my original Tellico setup are "Store
>> images in common application directory" but poking around in /usr hasn't
>> been fruitful. As you may have guessed, I don't know that much about Ubuntu
>> and how it works, despite using it for about 15 years. I'm running Tellico
>> 3.5.3 on Ubuntu 24.04.1.
>> 
>> I'm guessing that if I had the settings as "Store images in data file" I
>> wouldn't have had this problem, so it would be good to have it set up that
>> way on the new laptop. There are about 1,000 book records, so I'm reluctant
>> to do anything that means a separe operation for each record.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for any help.
>> 
>> Ian
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