Re: Moving thumbnails.db to an external drive
Thomas <[email protected]> Sat, 1 Aug 2026 17:28:35 +0200
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Another approach might be the following:
1. Stop DK
2. Move thumbnails.db to new location
3. Inside the original folder, create a symlink to the new location.
(command: cd old/path && ln -s /new/path/thumbnails.db)
4. Start DK, verify it works. It ought to work.
BR
On 2026-07-31 18.45, Andrew Goodbody wrote:
> I do not see a way to do this from within digikam so I would try this:
>
> 1) Exit digikam
> 2) Copy thumbnails.db to new location.
> 3) Find your digikamrc file (on Linux it is ~/.config/digikamrc but I
> am not sure where it would be on a Mac but this is documented
> somewhere) and take a backup copy.
> 4) Edit digikamrc in a text editor and alter the path for the entry
> 'Database Name Thumbnails', which is in the section headed '[Database
> Settings]', so that it points to the new location of thumbnails.db
> 5) Start digikam and ensure thumbnails are working OK, maybe add an
> image so that the thumbnails database will be updated.
> 6) Exit digikam
> 7) Check access time or just the size in bytes of thumbnails.db in new
> location to ensure that was the one being used.
> 8) If all is OK delete thumbnails.db from original location.
>
> I am not sure how stable this is and whether anything would cause
> digikam to overwrite the change to digikamrc but I think it should be OK.
>
> Andrew
>
> PS Not tested and you should proceed at your own risk. YMMV
>
> On 31/07/2026 14:58, Ronald Orenstein wrote:
>> My thumbnails.db file is now 35GB in size, and I would like to move
>> it to an external SSD. I run Digikam on a mac, and the SSD is
>> formatted in ExFAT. Can this be done, and if so, how?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help!
>>
>> Ron Orenstein
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<p>Another approach might be the following:</p>
<ol>
<li>Stop DK</li>
<li>Move thumbnails.db to new location</li>
<li>Inside the original folder, create a symlink to the new
location. (command: cd old/path && ln -s
/new/path/thumbnails.db)</li>
<li>Start DK, verify it works. It ought to work.</li>
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<p><br>
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<p>BR</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2026-07-31 18.45, Andrew Goodbody
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:161010da-b8ab-43ce-b1f1-f334604a7ee5-ptaI7qVW217I2b3xV5v0FQ@public.gmane.org">I
do not see a way to do this from within digikam so I would try
this:
<br>
<br>
1) Exit digikam
<br>
2) Copy thumbnails.db to new location.
<br>
3) Find your digikamrc file (on Linux it is ~/.config/digikamrc
but I am not sure where it would be on a Mac but this is
documented somewhere) and take a backup copy.
<br>
4) Edit digikamrc in a text editor and alter the path for the
entry 'Database Name Thumbnails', which is in the section headed
'[Database Settings]', so that it points to the new location of
thumbnails.db
<br>
5) Start digikam and ensure thumbnails are working OK, maybe add
an image so that the thumbnails database will be updated.
<br>
6) Exit digikam
<br>
7) Check access time or just the size in bytes of thumbnails.db in
new location to ensure that was the one being used.
<br>
8) If all is OK delete thumbnails.db from original location.
<br>
<br>
I am not sure how stable this is and whether anything would cause
digikam to overwrite the change to digikamrc but I think it should
be OK.
<br>
<br>
Andrew
<br>
<br>
PS Not tested and you should proceed at your own risk. YMMV
<br>
<br>
On 31/07/2026 14:58, Ronald Orenstein wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">My thumbnails.db file is now 35GB in size,
and I would like to move it to an external SSD. I run Digikam
on a mac, and the SSD is formatted in ExFAT. Can this be done,
and if so, how?
<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance for any help!
<br>
<br>
Ron Orenstein
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