<div dir="ltr">Hi Michael,<div><br></div><div>I can't speak to your other questions, but I'd enable .xmp sidecar files. Because XMP is a standard, if you need to you can always migrate to a different photo management system. I commit my .xmp files into a `git` repository and then sync that to a backup drive.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 12:44 AM Michael Moore <<a href="mailto:stuporglue@gmail.com">stuporglue@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello, <br></div><div><br></div><div>I have about 240,000 photos that I'd like to manage with digiKam. I'm especially interested in the tagging capabilities. I'm comfortable setting up the remote MySQL server. I like digiKam, and I want to use the facial recognition to help organize these some more. <br></div><div><br></div><div>I have a few questions before I just go for it:<br></div><div><br></div><div>1. With remote MySQL can multiple users share the same database?</div><div><br></div><div>My wife and I have separate accounts on a Linux desktop machine, and we would both like to be able to access the library. </div><div><br></div><div>2. Can the library be accessed from a separate computer? <br></div><div><br></div><div>If I set up NFS and use the MySQL remote, can I also view the library from a separate computer? <br></div><div><br></div><div>Or will the different paths (due to being mounted via NFS) break things?<br></div><div><br></div><div>3. What's the best way to future-proof my library? <br></div><div><br></div><div>After I've tagged and organized my photos I don't want to do it again. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Is the best practice to write tags to the files, or to dump MySQL as plain text, or something else? I'd like to ensure that if something surpasses digiKam in 10 years, that I'll still have my tags. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Michael<br></div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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