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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thanks for the input Gilles. Looking
      into the \AppData configuration folder, it seemed like the config
      file would have been: yolov3-face.cfg <br>
      <br>
      <font face="monospace"> Volume in drive C:<br>
        <br>
         Directory of
        C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\digikam\facesengine<br>
        <br>
        10:34 PM    <DIR>          .<br>
        10:34 PM    <DIR>          ..<br>
        08:16 PM            28,092 deploy.prototxt<br>
        10:34 PM                 0 dir.txt<br>
        08:16 PM        31,510,785 openface_nn4.small2.v1.t7<br>
        08:16 PM         5,351,047
        res10_300x300_ssd_iter_140000_fp16.caffemodel<br>
        08:16 PM        67,740,572 shapepredictor.dat<br>
        08:16 PM             8,334 yolov3-face.cfg<br>
        08:26 PM       246,305,388 yolov3-wider_16000.weights<br>
           7 File(s)    350,944,218 bytes</font><br>
      <br>
      So I ran this, expecting to see my current installation boot:<br>
      <br>
      <font face="monospace">digikam.exe --config
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\digikam\facesengine\yolov3-face.cfg</font><br>
      <br>
      Instead DigiKam opened as if it was opening for the 1st time. It
      just wasn't recognizing yolov3-face.cfg as a valid config file,
      and opened as a fresh installation no matter what file I pointed
      it to. That initial window that pops up refers to, "The new
      location for configuration files is ~/Local Settings/ ~(old
      AppData/Local/). But the only Digikam files there are 2 simple
      text files in the root AppData/Local/ folder,  digikam_systemrc 45
      KB and digikamrc 88KB that the --config command ignores.<br>
      <br>
      I can't see any other locations where a valid config file might
      be. And if the --help output for --database-directory <dir>
      is referring to a folder that should literally be named dir
      somewhere, I couldn't find it.<br>
      <br>
      Admittedly I'm not great at the technical end of things. 😉<br>
      <br>
      On 4/7/2022 10:07 PM, Gilles Caulier wrote:<br>
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        <div>Hi,</div>
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        <div>the digiKam binary has few option from command line to
          switch to a specific configuration file. Under Linux it's easy
          to do :</div>
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        <div><span style="font-family:monospace"><span
              style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">[gilles@localhost
              8.x]$ digikam --help
            </span><br>
            Usage: digikam [options]
            <br>
            Professional Photo Management with the Power of Open Source
            - A KDE Family Project
            <br>
            <br>
            Options:
            <br>
             -h, --help                  Displays help on commandline
            options.
            <br>
             --help-all                  Displays help including Qt
            specific options.
            <br>
             -v, --version               Displays version information.
            <br>
             --author                    Show author information.
            <br>
             --license                   Show license information.
            <br>
             --desktopfile <file name>   The base file name of the
            desktop entry for this
            <br>
                                         application.
            <br>
             --download-from <path>      Open camera dialog at
            "path"
            <br>
             --download-from-udi <udi>   Open camera dialog for
            the device with Solid UDI
            <br>
                                         "udi"
            <br>
             --detect-camera             Automatically detect and open a
            connected gphoto2
            <br>
                                         camera
            <br>
             --database-directory <dir>  Start digikam with the
            SQLite database file found
            <br>
                                         in the directory "dir"
            <br>
             --config <config>           Start digikam with the
            configuration file
            <br>
                                         "config"
            <br>
            [gilles@localhost 8.x]$ <br>
          </span></div>
        <div><span style="font-family:monospace"><br>
          </span></div>
        <div><span style="font-family:monospace">The option "<span
              style="font-family:monospace">--config <config>" is
              the right one for your use case. Look also "<span
                style="font-family:monospace">--database-directory
                <dir>".</span></span></span></div>
        <div><span style="font-family:monospace"><span
              style="font-family:monospace"><span
                style="font-family:monospace"><br>
              </span></span></span></div>
        <div><span style="font-family:monospace"><span
              style="font-family:monospace"><span
                style="font-family:monospace">These options are also
                available under Windows of course. Just call digikam.exe
                from a simple Windows batch script must do the stuff.</span></span></span></div>
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              </span></span></span></div>
        <div><span style="font-family:monospace"><span
              style="font-family:monospace"><span
                style="font-family:monospace">Best</span></span></span></div>
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        <div><span style="font-family:monospace"><span
              style="font-family:monospace"><span
                style="font-family:monospace">Gilles Caulier<br>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le ven. 8 avr. 2022 à 05:18,
          Shel Ritter <<a href="mailto:shelritterbmw@yahoo.com"
            moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">shelritterbmw@yahoo.com</a>>
          a écrit :<br>
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          <div> I've had a copy of Digikam installed and working well on
            my Windows 7 PC for some time now. Recently I find myself
            wanting a separate copy of Digikam to incorporate an
            completely different library of photos. Is that possible? <br>
            <br>
            I was wondering if that mcould be done by making a copy of
            the \<user>\AppData\Roaming\digikam folder, and
            uninstalling the program, deleting (or just moving) the
            original data folder, reinstalling it, and importing a
            different folder & sub-folders from a different file
            library. Then just switch the 2 \AppData\ folders when I
            want to switch between libraries. I'm guessing things
            probably aren't that simple. Is the any chance there's a
            more sophisticated method if possible at all?<br>
            <br>
            I'm also wondering if there's any way to have DigiKam use
            the existing files in the new library instead of copying
            them all to a separate location. My libraries are pretty
            large.<br>
            <br>
            Thanks for any feedback folks.<br>
            Shel<br>
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