<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>You don't need to install 2 versions of digiKam binary at different places.</div><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><div>At end you must to have 2 digiKam desktop icons pointing on 2 different config files</div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div><br></div><div>Gilles Caulier<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le mer. 13 avr. 2022 à 01:09, 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">
<div>
<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><br>
</div>
<div dir="auto">Not at all. Yolov config file is for face
recognition…</div>
<div dir="auto"><br>
</div>
<div dir="auto">The digiKam config file is named digikamrc </div>
<div dir="auto"><br>
</div>
<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">shelritterbmw@yahoo.com</a>>
a écrit :<br>
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<div>
<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>
</div>
<div>
<div><br>
<br>
On 4/7/2022 10:07 PM, Gilles Caulier wrote:<br>
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<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="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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<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" target="_blank">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">
<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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