On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 10:05:27PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > > I have around 4.5GB of photos from the past few years on my hard disk. I > have all of these as albums in digikam. I am thinking of saving these on > to a DVD and freeing up the space from my hard disk. I was wondering of > anyone has any suggestions on how best to do this. Should I just dump > the directories (that correspoond to each album in digikam) on to the > DVD? Should I include the .db files as well which are presumably used by > digikam? Or is there any other option which I do not know about yet? > > My idea is just to dump the directories. But if there is a tool which > includes a photo browser as well such that a user can just put the DVD > into an optical drive and start browsing the pictures using that tool > something - like PicutreCD - that would be great too (though most OSes > have a picture browser built in nowadays). The tool may be java based to > be cross platform. > > Can't be more specifid, just looking for input actually about a better > option than dumping the directories straight to the DVD ... i.e. if such > an option exists. > > ->HS >
I am also using digikam to display my photos. The photos occupy ~6.6GB. If you put your 4.5GB on DVD, you are asking for trouble as soon as your photo library gets >4.7GB (pretty soon now ? ). I know that this comment may not seem useful or to the point, but for ~$100 I recently purchased a 250GB drive from Western Digital. You could add such a drive to your system and stop worrying about saving disk space. I don't worry. In fact, it was only to be able to quote a disk usage number in this letter, that I ran du on my photo library. I think you will also have better data security for your photos on HD than on DVD. If you worry about accidental deletion, mark the whole thing read-only, keep an extra copy, etc. -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
