[Digikam-devel] Re: Synchronize digikam databases between computers

[Gert Kello]

>> Is there any plans to support synchronizing two digikam databases?
>> Like tags, ratings etc?
>
> More of a question for whoever answers yours, but hey.  If you write
> metadata to files then sync the files between computers (rsync,
> unison, whatever...) and rescan them on the 'other' system...  will
> that do it?  Or is there other data in the database that would not end
> up being transferred?

Most of my files are Canon CR2 files, so writing metadata is not yet
option.Perhaps with XMP sidecar files, but last time I tried it was
not able to create them when I executed "writemetadata to all files".

And this approach is not suitable for backup files on read-only media.

Gert