[Digikam-users] Several databases with digikam

[Paul Waldo]

Using different Albums may be of use to you.  I organize in a similar manner; When I download images from my camera, the files go into an album named Camera.  When I do any work on one of those images, that work goes into a different album called Developed.  Note that these albums point to different directories.  I want to keep my digital negatives as pristine as possible, hence the distinction.

If you have your three main categories of images in different directories, just go to the Digikam Settings and create an Album for each of the directories.  You now have visual separation of the types in Album View, and (IIRC) you can include the root album in any searches you create (e.g. caption=="cute puppy" and rootalbum==StockScans.  HTH!

Paul
----- "Jost Schenck" <jost.schenck at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been looking in the documentation (and maybe I'm blind), but I
> can't find 
> a way to manage different separated photo databases with digikam. The
> command 
> line option --database-directory doesn't seem to do what I would like
> to: open 
> a different digikam4.db, this way keeping completely separated
> databases with 
> completely separated sets of tags etc.
> 
> To explain my motivation for doing this, there are three settings I
> would like 
> to use digikam in:
> - our photo collection, standard digikam use
> - my archive of photos, illustrations, snippets and sketches that I
> collect so 
> I can some time reuse them as material for drawing and painting
> - I would like to build up a picture database of scanned magazine
> articles, 
> using tags to sort them by different topics
> 
> Each of these usages needs a completely different classification;
> while creating 
> a scanned document archive may not be the kind of task digikam was
> supposed to 
> do, I couldn't yet find any other Linux software that will do the job
> better. 
> Of course I could put everything into one huge digikam base, but it
> would make 
> tagging very confusing because of the vast amount of different tags.
> 
> Is there a way to realize what I want to do? Would it make sense to
> put this 
> on a wishlist? I would imagine a) a way to open a different digikam
> file in an 
> open-Dialog in the File menu and b) a way to specify a digikam-file on
> the 
> command line, so I could create different application launchers.
> 
> Thanks a lot for a wonderful software!
> Jost
> 
> -- 
> Jost Schenck
> jost at schenck.de
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