[Digikam-users] Shared collection / old feature request

[Marcel Wiesweg]

> Hi Marcel, Martin, Emmanuel, and everyone interested in sharing
> collections,
> 
> let me direct your attention to this rather old bug/ feature request:
> 
> "Transparent update of picture content and metadata after file update
> and on software start"
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173632
> 
> I'm also still waiting for this option to re-read metadata on modified
> files whenever digiKam starts.
> 
> At the moment I don't even know how to properly use digikam on two
> different operating systems (Linux and Mac OS) with just one user (on
> just one computer). Could I just make a symlink to digikam4.db on one
> system (i.e. Mac OS)? 
> Does the digiKam and KDE version have to be
> exactly the same? What about the directory path to the collection, can
> it be different?

For this (and other) reasons digikam normally stores collections by the 
partitions UUID. That means, if KDE Solid is properly implemented on Mac OS X 
- I dont know if it is - you should be able to use the same database file and 
photo directories, on a partition accessed by both OSs.
Make backups and try...it works or not ;-)