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digiKam cannot find photos after upgrading to a larger hard drive [Linux] [Ubuntu 22.04]
I found an old mail thread from 2011 and some bugs (267131, 456749) that discuss a similar issue. It also seemed to suggest how the digiKam database could be updated to fix the issue.
It seems that, ...
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How to rate photo relative to others in a set?
About 95% of my work is done on contract for the clients (they pay for the exclusive, unlimited rights to the images), so I don't have a concept of cross shoot comparison in my workflow. Speed is also ...
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How to rate photo relative to others in a set?
You mean other than "be more sparing in your assessments"?
I only ever flag session images with one or two stars. Most images are either culled or receive no stars.
Nothing ever gets a 4 or ...
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On display about my nikon whjich goes off each time i take a photo
Most DSLRs and other digital ILCs have user adjustable settings that determine if and for how long the preview image is shown after a photo is taken. In general, one can select anything from "no ...
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How do I supply metadata when digitizing a print, slide, and negative library?
You can edit exif metadata with an editor, command line, or in photo software like Adobe Lightroom. You can adjust date, camera and lens info, and even add GPS coordinates.
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How do I supply metadata when digitizing a print, slide, and negative library?
You have entered the twilight zone. Reality takes a back seat.
When you shoot digitally you get a bunch of information for free:
A timestamp. You know to within a second (assuming your camera is ...
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What open and free software to use to manage large collection of photos?
Ok, this may not be the answer you're looking for, but my advice would be to use standard tools that come with the operating system. For example, MS-DOS was released about 40 years ago and supported ...
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How to manage photos when Lightroom cannot?
Lack of support for more file types is an issue I wish Lightroom would address, at least for management if not for display and edits. I have GIF's and also some uncompressed video which has similar ...
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Digikam for exporting virtual gallery (selection)
If you are looking for a method to sort a batch of photo's and keep a track of where you have used individual images, digikam has several tools that can help.
Rather than copying the files you could ...
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digiKam cannot find photos after upgrading to a larger hard drive [Linux] [Ubuntu 22.04]
Following NeilenMarais's excellent answer I wrote a simple Bash script to update the UUID, picture and icon paths:
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How do you maintain metadata across multiple images?
At present to do what I want I would need to ... I don't do this.
For any software to work, it has to be used as intended. Many of the tasks you note are handled by some programs, when they are used ...
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How to collect and organise digital photos by others
Yes, assets from different source are in fact quite well to handle. I use Lightroom Classic and hence will only discuss this tool in my answer. (Beware: there are 2 versions, Lightroom and Lightroom ...
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What open and free software to use to manage large collection of photos?
I think the best answer is to print all of your photos, good prints stored correctly will last hundreds of years.
For your digital files I don't think there is an answer that will completely satisfy ...
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Is there a way to mass export photos stored in Lightroom/Creative Cloud when quitting CC?
As Romeo Ninov points out in his answer, its not a question of exporting images, but of saving the metadata. Metadata in this case are any library settings (stars, flags, tags, IPTC settings, etc.) as ...
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Is there a way to mass export photos stored in Lightroom/Creative Cloud when quitting CC?
You can create new smart collection with all the photos in library and then select all photos, right click, Metadata->Save metadata to files.
The way I create such collection is this:
Goto ...
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Where is a pointer to what metadata each photo editing package preserves?
About the unique image ID thing: One solution that could work would be to use a unique number and write it in all files - and perhaps add a f0f0f0 (or something ...
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Which photo managers feature publish services similar to Lightroom?
Then there is this software, http://abemeda.com/ it’s windows so I can’t vouch for it but it has some symbiotic connection to NeoFinder
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Which photo managers feature publish services similar to Lightroom?
I'm not sure if this software has what you need, but I've been using Neofinder [https://www.neofinder.de]now for a couple of years and have found it capable of handling all my DAM tasks. However it ...
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