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[JoHubb]

I have 2.4 TB used space on a 3 TB drive. Running 18.4 Mate.

The material consists of familly videos, photos and some downloaded films. The family photos are index listed using LibreCalc.
I wish to retain all this material.

Is it possible to add another 3TB HDD and have LibreCalc update the index across both disks as new items are added? I would need advice how to do this.

Or do I have to split the content into two halves and index these separately e.g. A-L and M-Z. This would be slow but easy to do.

Any other ideas gratefully received! Thanks.

[JoHubb]

Any ideas? Thanks.

[RIH]

I have no idea how you are creating an index of your photos with Libre Calc.
I presume that it is using a macro to do that, in which case the macro would certainly need alteration if another drive was added.

It might be a great deal easier to use something like Rapid Photo Downloader, but I guess that depends on exactly how you wish to index them..
https://www.damonlynch.net/rapid/

[JoHubb]

Thanks.

I use alphabetical indexing in LibreCalc and it is very simple. I am just an amateur but I have amassed a lot of material, some of it scanned from slides and prints.

https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Cre ... al_Indexes

The problem is not the indexing per se. It is the linking together of two HDDs so that they read as a single volume.

This can be done in Win 10 - using Spanned or Striped drives. I am not sure if Linux supports this. I guess it does but I need information.

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-crea ... windows-10