digiKam, KDE's full-featured photo management software, releases version 8.6.0.

My personal photo collection is 1TB with 66185 files....

I am a hobby photographer and last year I captured about 14500 pictures

Sure.

My setup is technically horrible.

All my personal photos are stored on a single mechanical hard drive in my computer.

There are zero backups apart from an old Intel NAS that I keep as a cold backup of most of my other media, it has not been updated in several years, and has old drives that was used when I got it more then a decade ago.

What I am trying to say is that while my setup might seem nice, it is awful.

I have thought about getting a NAS for years and one day I will wake up and start blasting the Scorpion song Someday Is Now, and as the blood rains down across the tundra, my feet will rain down on the sidewalk on Sveavägen as I go and buy a NAS.

Anyway, take my technical setup as a warning on what not to do even though it is possible.

So yeah, my setup is pretty basic, I have a Windows 10 machine (which I may try and migrate to Linux as October gets closer....), I run digiKam 7.3.0 IIRC, digiKam uses a root folder on a single HDD as a library folder.

In the Library folder I have a folder structure like this

../

<YEAR>

<SERIALNUMBER>

<YEAR>

Example:

../2024/Arlanda 4 2024/

This is an ok system that works for me, it almost mirrors the standard I used when naming photos I uploaded to deviantArt, then I added another serialnumber to the end.

I use a Lumix S5 camera, and have it set to save both HQ JPEG and RAW, I am planning on adding a Sony A7 IV and a few lenses more to my collection.

digiKam handles Lumix RAW files fine

@ada OK. Guess we should have an other look then, but on a copy of part of our photos.

Last year I noticed that Digikam had written to our photo library when manually updating the external backups.
Jacqueline thinks she had checked all config settings.

Thanks for the reply.