On 4/24/07, Richard E Miles <r.godzilla at comcast.net> wrote: > I will be installing Centos 5 soon and would like to know how to save my > digikam photos from centos 4.4 for inclusion in the centos 5 digikam version. > > I have a external usb 2.0 hard drive to save the messages on. I know how to savethe messages on the hard drive. > I am interested in knowing should I save the entire pictures directory or only > the photos from my albums. I have not done this myself, so this is only a suggestion. First locate your digikam's configuration fle. In KDE, it may be: ~/.kde/share/config/digikamrc If it has a line Album Path=/some/path, you probably need to copy that directory and later refer to it in your new installation. Akemi