I used for a while this amazing manager on my laptop. But in the end now i have to move all my images (many places) to external disc. I will manage the photos still on the same laptop, but then photos will be no longer there. I notice that when i collect alll my photos on one external device (1tb) the digikam cant open mouted device. I can see olny the import option which i dont want to use (i dont want to copy them back i dont have espace for that). The only way im able to do something is copy some files do work on laptop copy back to disk. My aim is to use feature like renaming batch file names (jpg, png, mp4, mov) depend on date of creation.
QUESTION is there any way yo use literaly a digikam on external device? Connected via cable?
I haven’t used DigiKam myself so I don’t know if this will work but I am using an external drive for large amounts of data that I want to share between Desktop PC and laptop without the need to sync it.
In both systems I have the drive mounted at the same location, e…g /mnt/external-data and in my home directory I use symbolic links to “hook” that into common folders.
For example $HOME/Downloads has an entry external which points to /mnt/external-data/downloads so when any program opens the “Download” location the “external” storage is just one click away.
Of course DigiKam might be doing some more sophisticated checks which detect such files as “not local” but might be worth a try.
Thanks, it was good idea. It works. For linux beginers like me: on linux mint open two build in file explorers drag and drop with ctrl + shift (select it, and them press those two) folder from external device to any folder (new folder) at pictures folder in you system.