Bug 296864

Summary: SETUP : Create interface for changing physical location or path of album
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Glenn Washburn <development>
Component: Setup-DatabaseAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: caulier.gilles, metzpinguin
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 2.6.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In: 6.1.0
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Description Glenn Washburn 2012-03-27 09:23:52 UTC 
The current problem is that if the digikam user want to move an album to a different path from the root of the device its currently on, or to a different device, digikam will show the album with a red 'x' indicating that the path does not exist.  The user could delete the album and create another using the new path, however I'm not sure if that has undesired side effects and it will potentially take a long time to scan all the album photos.

This is "easily" fixed (for a knowledgeable user) by updating the database by hand, namely the identifier column and/or specificPath column of the AlbumRoots table needs to be updated.  This should be allowed by the UI so that everyone has a chance to do this.

I suggest having an edit icon button which pops up a file chooser dialog for the user to select the new location of the album.  The FHS path should be all that is needed to figure out the needed column values.
Comment 1 Marcel Wiesweg 2012-07-08 12:29:32 UTC 
What's the problem with moving the album by drag and drop from within digikam?
Comment 2 Maik Qualmann 2019-03-14 20:38:33 UTC 
This problem is no longer reproducible. It is also possible to assign a new path or drive to a collection. I close the bug.

Maik