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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Holy crap! Thank you so much for explaining that. </p><p class=MsoNormal>It makes so much sense now.</p><p class=MsoNormal>I will go back and put this answer on all those other forums I’ve asked this on.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks again Maik, you are my new hero for the day <span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif'>😊</span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Fred</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:metzpinguin@gmail.com">Maik Qualmann</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, October 22, 2021 3:53 AM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:digikam-users@kde.org">digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [digiKam-users] Need help connecting to an existing SQL DB</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Different OS systems, as long as the mountpath of the images collection is </p><p class=MsoNormal>identical, is easily possible. However, if the mount path is e.g. "/mnt/</p><p class=MsoNormal>pictures" on one computer and "C:\pictures" or "\\SERVER\pictures" on the </p><p class=MsoNormal>other, it is currently not possible without manual changes to an entry in the </p><p class=MsoNormal>DB.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Maik</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Am Freitag, 22. Oktober 2021, 04:27:51 CEST schrieb Fred Wilhelm:</p><p class=MsoNormal>> So it is not possible to connect multiple computers to a single MySQL</p><p class=MsoNormal>> database?</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> Fred</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> From: Maik Qualmann<mailto:metzpinguin@gmail.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2021 2:38 PM</p><p class=MsoNormal>> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power</p><p class=MsoNormal>> of open source<mailto:digikam-users@kde.org> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users]</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Need help connecting to an existing SQL DB</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> Sometimes nobody just doesn't know the answer. I don't know the specifics of</p><p class=MsoNormal>> a Docker installation, nor do I know what a "Guacamole" client is. When I</p><p class=MsoNormal>> google for the word, a dish of Mexican cuisine comes out. Yes, I also found</p><p class=MsoNormal>> it to be an HTML5 web application, but I don't know it. Nobody can know</p><p class=MsoNormal>> everything.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> Usually connecting to a MySQL server is not a big deal. But without some</p><p class=MsoNormal>> debug logs from the terminal we cannot help. In addition, digiKam is not</p><p class=MsoNormal>> really suitable for multi-OS, since the collection base path is different</p><p class=MsoNormal>> between Windows and Linux. There is an undocumented solution for this and I</p><p class=MsoNormal>> plan to make this available in the GUI, but currently it is not possible</p><p class=MsoNormal>> without manual changes to the MySQL DB.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> Maik</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> Am Donnerstag, 21. Oktober 2021, 19:57:20 CEST schrieb Fred Wilhelm:</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > Hi all,</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > </p><p class=MsoNormal>> > Am I doing something wrong? I have been asking this question for months</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > now</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > with no response. I’ve asked in tech forums and Reddit groups supposedly</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > dedicated to Digikam. No responses. If my question is too stoopid, please</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > tell me I am a moron but please tell me why. I simply can’t find the</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > answer</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > to this anywhere.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > </p><p class=MsoNormal>> > Fred</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > </p><p class=MsoNormal>> > From: Fred Wilhelm<mailto:siliconfalcon@live.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>> > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 7:00 PM</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > To: digikam-users@kde.org<mailto:digikam-users@kde.org></p><p class=MsoNormal>> > Subject: [digiKam-users] Need help connecting to an existing SQL DB</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > </p><p class=MsoNormal>> > Hi Friends,</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > </p><p class=MsoNormal>> > I have an Unraid server with the Digikam docker installation set to use a</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > MySQL server. Everything is working great and I love the product. Now,</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > however, I would like to install the Windows version of Digikam on my</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > laptop due to functionality issues in the Guacamole client. When I go</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > through the install, I am asked for the database connection info (which</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > connects fine) but, when it completes the install, it creates a new set of</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > empty tables and dumps my current database. I do not want to run the</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > Digikam server from my laptop because I have a cron job running to detect</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > faces as pictures are uploaded to my personal cloud and the Unraid server</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > is always running.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > </p><p class=MsoNormal>> > I am looking for the documentation to install Digikam on my Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > laptop to use the existing MySQL database on my Unraid server.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > </p><p class=MsoNormal>> > </p><p class=MsoNormal>> > Fred</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>