(In the event of a catastrophic loss of your digikam database, you can rebuild it from the image exif data).Īt the end of the day though, they're your images, you need to decide how to catalogue them. One suggestion I would make is to ensure you allow digikam to write to the image exif data, Settings -> Configure digiKam -> Metadata -> Behaviour -> "Write this information.". It would be better to, if possible, "get it right" from the start, rather than to make extensive changes later. Perhaps play around for a little while until you find the "best" solution for your own needs. The following is a concise overview of features and tools available in digiKam. The hierarchy for my personal stuff is Subject/Year/Month, that for the client images simply Year/Client-Ref.ĭigiKam itself has quite good searching capabilities, and you also have the ability to apply (searchable) tags to images. And to make the application run fast and smoothly, it’s a good idea to check and optimize the databases every now and then. I use digiKam for both my own personal photographs and those of clients (I supplement my income with wedding and event photography).
DigiKam allows Albums (Directories of images) to have Sub-Albums (Sub-directories of images), that may be useful in deciding the hierarchy of directory structure used. digiKam features XMP metadata DNG format reading and writing a database.
Now that Ive redone all of the work I would like to back up my data, but I cant find it.
Ive lost all the work that I put into tagging all of my photos and all the obsolete keywords reappeared, but digikam is still running. prev in thread next in thread List: kde-bugs-dist Subject: Bug 125474 wish: possibility to merge digikam databases From: thmCharacter distribution range:Basic Latin,Latin-1 Roaster is a 2 font. By default, digiKam uses two SQLite databases for storing essential data: digikam4.db and thumbnails-digikam.db. Changed the database type to MySQL Internal, added the folder containing my data and left digikam running. CREATE DATABASE digikam GRANT ALL ON gentoo.
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where should I start, particularly with the folder structure? Year>Month>file date?Think perhaps how you would arrange your photographs if you were doing it manually. digiKam is a free and open-source image organizer and tag editor written in C++ using the. Deleted the database and started digikam.
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