Bug 406631

Summary:	Lightroom migration
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	lamola2010
Component:	Database-Scan	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	caulier.gilles
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.0.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Microsoft Windows
OS:	Microsoft Windows
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:	8.1.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description lamola2010 2019-04-17 15:45:03 UTC

I'm a lightroom 5.7.1 user, how can I migrate the catalog of my 50,000 photos to digikam 6.0? I do not want to lose the basic settings, cuts and metadata.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 10 Pro

Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2019-04-18 13:41:30 UTC

LR migration is a topic which have been already talk in digikam user mailing list in the past.


Globally, in LR, you need to write all image properties in XMP sidecar files. digiKam cannot parse the LR database which is a closed format. XMP sidecar is normalized and well documented. It's used for interoperability between photo applications.

In digiKam, check well the Setup/metadata configuration panel to use XMP sidecar.

Create a new root collection based on your path where images managed by LR are stored.

When scan of items is done (this can take a while), you must to see appear all tags, labels, comments, etc from LR in digiKam items properties.

I recommend to make test first, on small collection, and to process step by step. Scanning items and populate the database is a long stage.

Best

Gilles Caulier

Comment 2 caulier.gilles 2020-08-01 15:47:25 UTC

digiKam 7.0.0 stable release is now published and now available as FlatPak:

https://www.digikam.org/news/2020-07-19-7.0.0_release_announcement/

We need a fresh feedback on this file using this version.

Thanks in advance

Gilles Caulier

Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2022-01-08 17:28:10 UTC

Give us a fresh feedback with digiKam 7.5.0  pre-release available here :

https://files.kde.org/digikam/

Thanks in advance

Gilles Caulier

Comment 4 caulier.gilles 2023-04-29 09:41:45 UTC

This file is not a bug and work around is described in comment #1. I close it

Comment 5 caulier.gilles 2023-04-29 09:56:26 UTC

Git commit 979132697547de8dd9aef48392e3574a0856b2f8 by Gilles Caulier.
Committed on 29/04/2023 at 09:55.
Pushed by cgilles into branch 'master'.

Online doc: add section about to migrate the file properties in the digiKam database from another software

M  +19   -1    getting_started/database_intro.rst

https://invent.kde.org/documentation/digikam-doc/commit/979132697547de8dd9aef48392e3574a0856b2f8