[Digikam-users] Re: shared and archived photos

[Lluís Forns]

Thanks, it resolves half of my problem. My other half is how to store 
photos in removable media; but allow them to be searched.

Al 18/02/2011 13:05, En/na Gilles Caulier ha escrit:
> Personally, at home, i use this configuration :
>
> 1 netbook Linux/Win7 (Wifi)
> 1 macbook (Ethernet)
> 1 laptop Win Vista. (Wifi)
>
> I setup recently a B3 server device to host all my photos B3 is
> connected to network with Ethernet and has 1 Gb HDD. Network sharing
> is Samba (windows/linux) and AFP (apple)
>
> http://www.digikam.org/node/570
>
> On B3 i tried setup Mysql server to host remote collection. It work
> and you can share same database for all home computer. The disavantage
> is that doesn't work if you use your computer outside home (for ex
> with my netbook) The solution is to open database acess through
> internet, but for security reason, i don't do iy currently.
>
> About that On my netbook i switch from Mysql to SQlite.
>
> Using remote collections and remote database can be a problem if
> network is slow (typically with WIFI). The goal is to render all DB
> registrations (scan, thumb, fingerprint, faceid) connecting computer
> by ethernet. After that i disable scan new items at startup and do it
> manually if it's really necessary.
>
> i hope that it's help you...
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
>
> 2011/2/18 Lluís Forns<lluis.forns at escoltesiguies.cat>:
>>
>> Al 18/02/2011 01:09, En/na gerlos ha escrit:
>>> Il giorno 17/feb/2011, alle ore 10.18, Lluís Forns ha scritto:
>>>
>>>> I am looking for a software which allow me to:
>>>> - Share my photos (shared server) and tag/album database between computers
>>>> - Archive/add photos to/from DVD, and thumbails/tags/albums... keeps
>>>> stored in database, so when I search for a tag and double click on a
>>>> photo, I am asked to insert the correct DVD in order to open the file.
>>>>
>>>> Does digikam this? Thanks.
>>> If you use remote collections, afaik, yes, you can do this kind of things with digikam, just save your collection and its database in a shared directory.
>>> But I'm not sure, I never tried these kind of things, just worked with local collections. In particular, I don't know how will digikam manage simultaneous, concurrent modifications to your collections from two different computers.
>> Digikam support mysql as backend, so I think there will not be any
>> probelm with this.
>>
>> What I miss is if there is any way to storage photos in external media
>> in a way that digikam still knows about them, and when I try to open
>> them it asks me to insert the external media.
>>> Anyway, you can do something similar also using ResourceSpace, that works on the server, requiring only a web browser on the client side to work:
>>> http://www.resourcespace.org/
>>>
>>> bye bye
>>> gerlos
>>>
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