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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hello,<br>
      <br>
      Sorry to interfere here, but I am new to digiKam and I'd like to
      understand. Unfortunately, the digiKam documentation does not seem
      to mention command line options.<br>
      <br>
      So Gilles, are you saying that Shel should start digiKam with
      something like <br>
      <blockquote><font style="font-family:monospace;color:rgb(0,0,0)"
          face="monospace">digikam.exe --config
          C:\Users\<user>\Documents\new_digiKam_config.cfg </font><span
          style="font-family:monospace">--database-directory </span><font
          style="font-family:monospace;color:rgb(0,0,0)"
          face="monospace">C:\Users\<user>\Documents\new_digiKam_db.sqlite</font></blockquote>
      <font style="font-family:monospace;color:rgb(0,0,0)"
        face="monospace">and that digiKam will create a new config file
        and a new database ?<br>
        <br>
        Other question: did starting digiKam as Shel did break anything
        ?<br>
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      Le 08/04/2022 à 08:57, Gilles Caulier a écrit :<br>
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      <div dir="auto">Not at all. Yolov config file is for face
        recognition…</div>
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      <div dir="auto">The digiKam config file is named digikamrc </div>
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      <div dir="auto">Gilles Caulier <br>
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          <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le ven. 8 avr. 2022 à 08:41,
            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>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 style="font-family:monospace;color:rgb(0,0,0)"
                  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 style="font-family:monospace;color:rgb(0,0,0)"
                  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.
                😉</div>
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              <div><br>
                <br>
                On 4/7/2022 10:07 PM, Gilles Caulier wrote:<br>
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                  <div>Hi,</div>
                  <div><br>
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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>
                  <div><br>
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                  <div><span style="font-family:monospace"><span
style="font-family:monospace;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)">[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>
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                  <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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                  <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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                        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"
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                      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</div>
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Frédéric Da Vitoria</pre>
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