What is the base folder for database portability?

[pleiades]

Hi,

I have chosen xnviewmp as my asset management file and would like to ask what the base folder should be if I want it be portable.

What i meant about portability is if incase I need to move the assets, I don't need to rebuild the thumbnails and other metadata.

Since xnviewmp is portable, I plan to put xnviewmp beside the assets and create a shortcut to start it.

If xnviewmp folder is inside the asset folder, what should be the base folder ?

Thank you!

[xnview]

The 'base folder' must be edited the first time with clean database. It is used for relative pathname.
For ex., if one computer all of your photos are in d:\user\myphotos\ and on another one, it's e:\myphotos, the 'base path' on first one will be 'd:\user\' and on the second one will be 'e:\'. In the database only myphotos\... will be stored

[pleiades]

Thank you Pierre, I understand it better now!