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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">So where do I get a 2nd config file
Gilles? Do I just make a copy of the existing digikamrc file, and
then edit it and change the 4 local folder paths I see there to a
new location? <br>
<br>
This is what's in my current digikamrc:<br>
<font face="monospace">Database Name=<DriveLetter>:/DigiKam/<br>
Database Name Face=</font><font face="monospace"><font
face="monospace"><font face="monospace"><DriveLetter></font></font>:/DigiKam/<br>
Database Name Similarity=</font><font face="monospace"><font
face="monospace"><DriveLetter></font>:/DigiKam/<br>
Database Name Thumbnails=</font><font face="monospace"><font
face="monospace"><DriveLetter></font>:/DigiKam/</font><br>
<br>
Can I just make a copy named digikamrc2 and set:<br>
<font face="monospace">Database
Name=<DriveLetter>:/2ndConfig/DigiKam/<br>
Database Name Face=</font><font face="monospace"><font
face="monospace"><font face="monospace"><DriveLetter></font></font>:</font><font
face="monospace"><font face="monospace">/2ndConfig/</font>/DigiKam/<br>
Database Name Similarity=</font><font face="monospace"><font
face="monospace"><DriveLetter></font>:</font><font
face="monospace"><font face="monospace">/2ndConfig/</font>/DigiKam/<br>
Database Name Thumbnails=</font><font face="monospace"><font
face="monospace"><DriveLetter></font>:</font><font
face="monospace"><font face="monospace">/2ndConfig/</font>/DigiKam/</font><br>
<br>
And if that's all it takes, and I set the new path to a folder on
the system where the 2nd library files reside, will that avoid
having to copy a whole set of duplicates to a new location as was
the case for my current library?<br>
<br>
Thanks for your help on this Gilles.<br>
Shel<br>
<br>
On 4/12/2022 8:29 PM, Gilles Caulier wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi,</div>
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<div>You don't need to install 2 versions of digiKam binary at
different places.</div>
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<div>You will run the same binary but with 2 different config
files passed at startup. Use the right option from digikam.exe
command line for that. Create a desktop icon with right
properties to point of digikam.exe and use the right CLI
options.</div>
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<div>At end you must to have 2 digiKam desktop icons pointing on
2 different config files</div>
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<div>Best</div>
<div><br>
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<div>Gilles Caulier<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le mer. 13 avr. 2022 à 01:09,
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 again to Gilles for pointing me to the correct
DigiKam config file, digikamrc in hopes to set up a batch
file for switching between to separate instances of
DigiKam in Windows. But I'm still stuck at trying to
figure out how to create that 2nd DigiKam installation in
Windows to enable switching between the two. I could rind
the installer again and select a different folder for the
installation, but I'm afraid in the process Windows will
overwrite crucial files critical to the 1st installation.
Thanks for any thoughts on this.<br>
Shel<br>
<br>
On 4/8/2022 12:33 AM, Frédéric Da Vitoria wrote:<br>
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<div>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>
</font><br>
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>
<div dir="auto"><br>
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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"
target="_blank" 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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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>
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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>
</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>
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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"
target="_blank" 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</div>
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