[Digikam-devel] [Bug 202709] Sharing images among computers and update of local databases

[Milan Knizek]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202709





--- Comment #2 from Milan Knizek <knizek volny cz>  2009-08-06 18:24:37 ---
Even the possibility to re-read metadata from individual messages would be fine
in the first stage - currently, this does not work for new (i.e. locally
non-existing) tags, only the captions and existing tags are updated in the
local database (as assigned to the particular image).

The workflow for future could be:

1. On the first computer: in a special plugin / tool: select albums to be
copied to the portable device;

2. digiKam would mirror the folder tree (with the images) to a selected root
folder on the device and also create a remote database referring to the UUID
and the root folder of the portable drive; Also, it would offer if the albums
on local computer can be deleted (from disk and database);

3a. on the second computer, the user would open the database from the portable
drive and do tagging or editing of images;

3b. if the second computer also has some other collections, the databases could
be merged and user offered a possibility to move the collection of images from
the portable drive into the local album collection;

If during the merger of albums there already exists an old copy, digiKam would
overwrite those in case the source is newer then destination. Of course, this
could possibly lead to a loss of data if the user edited both versions of
images/metadata in the meantime.


The same steps can be done to get the images from the second computer back to
the first one.

This functionality would generally allow to migrate the collections/albums
together with the relevant part of the database.

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