<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><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]
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<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><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">Best</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">Gilles Caulier<br></span></span></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le ven. 8 avr. 2022 à 05:18, Shel Ritter <<a href="mailto:shelritterbmw@yahoo.com">shelritterbmw@yahoo.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">
  

    
  
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    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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