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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Bueno! Thanks so very much for you
      input in this my good man. I'll give it a go in the mañana.<br>
      Shel<br>
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      On 4/12/2022 10:58 PM, Gilles Caulier wrote:<br>
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          <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le mer. 13 avr. 2022
            à 07:41, Shel Ritter <<a
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              <div>So where do I get a 2nd config file Gilles?</div>
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          <div>Dupplicates original file and change configuration
            inside. It's a simple INI text file separated in sections.<br>
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              <div> 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>
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                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>
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          <div>exactly...</div>
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              <div> 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>
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          <div>Typically, yes. 2 separate databases which will not be in
            concurrency.</div>
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          <div>Gilles Caulier<br>
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              <div> 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>
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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
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                    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>
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                        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>
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                              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>
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                            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
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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"
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                                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
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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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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>
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                                          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
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                                        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 cols="72">-- 
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