https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267131
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--- Comment #19 from Metal450 <metal...@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Simon from comment #16)
> Yes this is still the same. There is no way to move a collection. The
> location of a collection is stored in the database, so it has to be manually
> adjusted in the database. Currently digikam sees that all files vanished, so
> deletes them in database and the only thing you can do is creating a new
> collection at the new location, obviously losing all information stored in
> the database. A solution within the current framework would be a function
> within digikam to move a collection.
> In my opinion much better would be to take a different approach at storing
> collection locations: Keep them separate from the database either in the
> existing or a new configuration file. That means all the paths in the
> database should be relative to root and the path to root is stored in this
> configuration file. This allows for easily changing the location of a
> collection and even for two digikam instances to share a database (not
> simultaneously, of course, but if that is a worry, that should be solved by
> locking). A use case would be if data and database were shared over a
> network and both could be accessed on different computers.
Has this been addressed yet? In particular, I'm interested in: "all the paths
in the database should be relative to root and the path to root is stored in
this configuration file" - for the purpose of sharing one database on a
WIn+Linux dual boot machine, rather than needing to maintain double databases &
double thumbnails for what is really the same photo collection. For other
software, this is how it has always worked: I specify a base path, and as all
other paths are relative, the same database can be used by both.
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