<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
Multiple databases under Digikam
<small><br>
</small>This
applies to you if you want to have multiple databases under Digikam
and you are using Ubuntu 10.10 and Digikam 2.0.0 beta 4. I do not
know till what extend this applies to other versions or systems.
<small><br>
<br>
</small>Why should you want that:
<small><br>
</small>If you have a huge photo collection and
specially when you work on a laptop with external usb drive it can
become slow to work with. Or, if you have completely different kinds
of collections in your database, and you perform a search you may
want to confine it to a certain part of your collections.
<small><br>
</small>In either case it would be more
conveniant to have multiple databases. <small><br>
</small><br>
How can you make it happen:
<small><br>
</small>Although the emphasis in the found
documentation (by me) is strong on having all collections in one
root
(=database) it is perfectly possible to have more.
<small><br>
</small>Goto Settings->Configure
Digikam->database, click the icon and choose a new path for a
database, and add your collection. At this place you can switch your
databases anytime.
<small><br>
</small><br>
If someone can do it, this tip might be suiteble to be put on the
developers blog on the digikam homepage so it comes available to
more people.<br>
<br>
<small><br>
</small>Kind regards,
<small><br>
</small>Rinus
</body>
</html>