<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>It depends on how do you write the information. If you write to jpegs themselves and/or xmp sidebars might get away having two different databases. </div><div>But if you store tags, ratings etc. in the database that has to be same .db file for both computers.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.</div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Dennis Powless <claven123@gmail.com> </div><div>Date: 2017-10-08 7:37 PM (GMT-07:00) </div><div>To: Andrey Goreev <aegoreev@gmail.com> </div><div>Cc: dpowless517@pobox.com, digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <digikam-users@kde.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: DigiKam and Dropbox </div><div><br></div></div>Agreed on both editing.<div><br></div><div>Where do I store the database files, would there be a set of database files on the one computer and a another set of database files on the other computer.</div><div><br></div><div>I guess I could point the program to the actual photos on each computer based their actual location.</div><div><br></div><div>D<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature">Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Oct 8, 2017, at 9:33 PM, Andrey Goreev <<a href="mailto:aegoreev@gmail.com">aegoreev@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><div>Probably the only proper way to share digikam database between 2 computers is using mysql database but it is still status "experimental" for digikam.</div><div><br></div><div>As for the using Dropbox it might worth to give it a shot. Depending on the user case it might work. I don't think you will be able to edit the database from both machines at the same time though.</div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.</div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Dennis Powless <<a href="mailto:claven123@gmail.com">claven123@gmail.com</a>> </div><div>Date: 2017-10-08 5:10 PM (GMT-07:00) </div><div>To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <<a href="mailto:digikam-users@kde.org">digikam-users@kde.org</a>> </div><div>Subject: DigiKam and Dropbox </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr">I'll ask a different way....<div><br></div><div>What is the best way to use DigiKam with dropbox on two different computers. Both running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?</div><div><br></div><div>The photos are stored on a dropbox folder on each computer.</div><div><br></div><div><br>Dennis </div></div>
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