<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>There are some problematics to share the same databases between Linux and Windows through the network :</div><div><br></div><div>1/ the concurrent access can break the database. There is no lock mechanism in digiKam to prevent this kind of problem.</div><div>2/ the string encoding are not the same : Linux=UTF8, Windows=!UTF8.</div><div>3/ the file path are completely differents.</div><div>4/ the UUID computed to identify the collection mount path can be different (code from KF5::Solid are not the same : I'm not sure)</div><div><br></div><div>There are plenty of bug reports in bugzilla about this topic. The problem is know.</div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div><br></div><div>Gilles Caulier</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le mer. 20 mars 2019 à 04:13, Andrey Goreev <<a href="mailto:aegoreev@gmail.com">aegoreev@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br>
<br>
You are correct on what digiKam DB is.<br>
You would need to add your images as Collections in Settings.<br>
I am not sure if there is way to use the same database from both linux and<br>
windows though because paths to images will be different.<br>
The only way I see is to write to sidecar files.<br>
But maybe someone else in this room already figured that out?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Andrey<br>
<br>
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Subject: [digiKam-users] New to DK - questions.<br>
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Greetings! I am really looking forward to getting more familiar with<br>
digiKam!<br>
<br>
I may have been too enthusiastic starting out. I read the article "Use<br>
digiKam with a NAS and MariaDB" and then installed the windows version and a<br>
linux version, and put a MariaDB on my freenas. All went well after a short<br>
learning curve. I do still have a few questions I could not find in past<br>
posts or the FAQ.<br>
<br>
Perhaps this is obvious, but where are the images stored? Does the DB just<br>
store thumbnails, metadata and pointers to images? If so how can I use both<br>
linux and windows since the pointers stored in the DB will be different even<br>
if they point to the NAS which both machine can see, but with a slightly<br>
different paths?<br>
<br>
In any case I am sure it will be pretty important to update digiKam on each<br>
platform at the same time. Until I get this figured out I'm only using linux<br>
to add photos.<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
Kip<br>
<br>
<br>
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