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Gerhard Kulzer | 1 Aug 2007 13:47

Re: Howto move Albums from one PC to another?

Am Tuesday 31 July 2007 schrieb Volker Guelke:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm currently using two computers (one laptop, one desktop) both running
> digiKam. The laptop is used for the initial import and viewing of new
> photos if I'm away from home. The desktop is my datastorage and working
> environment.
>
>
> During my last holidays I found the time to enter a lot of tags on my
> photos inside the laptop digiKam installation. Now I'm back home and
> want to migrate the new albums to my desktop-computer and of course, I
> want to keep the tags on the pictures.
>
>
> Now my questions:
>
> Is there a way to migrate tags together with the album from on PC to
> another?
>
> Is there a kind of "whitepaper" on using digiKam in a multi-pc or
> multiuser environment to bypass the problems which are potentially
> located in such "non-standard" environments?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Volker
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Volker Guelke | 2 Aug 2007 22:57

Re: Howto move Albums from one PC to another?

Hello Gerhard,

Gerhard Kulzer wrote:
> Hi Volker,
> this is to answer (partly) the two mails of you:
> 
> digiKam can be set-up (settings->configure digiKam->metadata) so as to write 
> all authoring data, comments and tags into the IPTC fields of the every image 
> file. If you do that you can actually move the files outside digiKam and 
> recover the metadata (provided they've not been overwritten by another 
> program) when re-integrating them into the digikam library path.
> 
> If you havn't set the above safe-metadata-to-file option yet, you can still 
> write all metadata into the files from Album menu: Synchronize images with 
> database. Unfortunately you have to do that album by album.
> 
> Gerhard

thanks for the information. This sounds like it will work. Currently
I'm using an older Version of digiKam (0.8.2) on my Standard-PC
which seems to be unable to use the IPTC-Fields, but I will try that
after an upgrade to a 0.9 Version.

Will digiKam work with category keywords, if they are not yet
configured in the importing digiKam installation or do I need to
configure them manually before the import step?

Bye,
Volker

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Wojciech Jarosz | 1 Aug 2007 18:07

Re: Howto move Albums from one PC to another?

On 8/1/07, Gerhard Kulzer <gerhard@...> wrote:
> Am Tuesday 31 July 2007 schrieb Volker Guelke:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I'm currently using two computers (one laptop, one desktop) both running
> > digiKam. The laptop is used for the initial import and viewing of new
> > photos if I'm away from home. The desktop is my datastorage and working
> > environment.
> >
> >
> > During my last holidays I found the time to enter a lot of tags on my
> > photos inside the laptop digiKam installation. Now I'm back home and
> > want to migrate the new albums to my desktop-computer and of course, I
> > want to keep the tags on the pictures.
> >
> >
> > Now my questions:
> >
> > Is there a way to migrate tags together with the album from on PC to
> > another?
> >
> > Is there a kind of "whitepaper" on using digiKam in a multi-pc or
> > multiuser environment to bypass the problems which are potentially
> > located in such "non-standard" environments?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Volker
>
> Hi Volker,

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Gerhard Kulzer | 2 Aug 2007 08:48

Re: Howto move Albums from one PC to another?

Am Wednesday 01 August 2007 schrieb Wojciech Jarosz:
> On 8/1/07, Gerhard Kulzer <gerhard@...> wrote:
> > Am Tuesday 31 July 2007 schrieb Volker Guelke:
> > > Hello everybody,
> > >
> > > I'm currently using two computers (one laptop, one desktop) both
> > > running digiKam. The laptop is used for the initial import and viewing
> > > of new photos if I'm away from home. The desktop is my datastorage and
> > > working environment.
> > >
> > >
> > > During my last holidays I found the time to enter a lot of tags on my
> > > photos inside the laptop digiKam installation. Now I'm back home and
> > > want to migrate the new albums to my desktop-computer and of course, I
> > > want to keep the tags on the pictures.
> > >
> > >
> > > Now my questions:
> > >
> > > Is there a way to migrate tags together with the album from on PC to
> > > another?
> > >
> > > Is there a kind of "whitepaper" on using digiKam in a multi-pc or
> > > multiuser environment to bypass the problems which are potentially
> > > located in such "non-standard" environments?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > Volker
> >

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