[Digikam-users] Sharing database between Windows and Linux

[James R. Shipman]

I also gave up trying.  My wife uses Picasa on windows and I use digikam 
on linux.  I set digikam to change the file mod date/time when it writes 
metadata.  This causes picasa to pick up the changes.  The main problem 
is that it is very difficult to get rid of a tag as each photo manager 
(digikam and picasa) maintain separate databases and each one wants to 
merge the photo data with its own database and write the result out to 
the image.  I finally solved this by shuting down picasa while I delete 
tags etc. in digikam; then shut down digikam and delete them again in 
picasa. then when I start digikam again the extra tags are now gone from 
both systems and the images.
Jim Shipman