Updating mapped drive to network share

[Pete Lindgren]

Hi all,
Please could anyone offer some guidance as to how best to re-assign my
collection. It's currently configured as a local collection with the path
being a mapped drive to a network location. I see DigiKam supports
collections on Network Shares. How can I tell DigiKam that my collection is
actually a Network Share rather than a local share, while still retaining
all the data such as facial recognition, etc?

Kind regards,
Pete

On Sun, 10 Dec 2023 at 22:58, Pete Lindgren <petelindgren at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> After returning to digiKam after a long hiatus, I see that collections can
> be specified by their network paths. I vaguely recall that mapping network
> share to a drive letter was previously the recommended or only supported
> approach for network shares. Therefore, currently, my collection is
> configured as a local collection with path Y:\Pictures.
>
> 1) Are mapped drives still the recommended approach?
> 2) Do network share collections allow the same collection to be accessed
> (with associated database info) from different digiKam clients?
> 3) How could I change the configuration so that the collection is
> recognised as a network share collection, both without duplicating the
> image files (I don't have space), and without necessitating repopulating
> the digiKam meta databases (such as faces)?
>
> * DigiKam 8.2.0 (having just upgraded today from 7.6 or something like
> that)
> * Windows 10 DigiKam client
> * digikam Dbs on ubuntu machine on local network.
>
> Kind regards,
> Pete
>
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