[Digikam-users] Off-line Collection Browsing & DB cleanup

[Nick Anderson]

On 05/13/2012 08:34 AM, Jean-François Rabasse wrote:
> 2. On my desktop fixed drive, I have a complete directories tree of all
> of my folders, albums, subalbums, but without the images files.
> Instead, original images are replaced by small versions.
>
> (This built is automatized with shell scripts, browsing an images set
> and building small versions with command line tools as the ImageMagick
> convert program. My typical convert settings are (-resize '300x300>'
> -quality 70), so small sized but readable images, and low quality but
> high compression. Typical reduced version is 40 Kbytes, instead of the
> original 6 to 8 Mbytes, thus a disk space requirement reduced by a
> factor of 200 !)

Thanks for the response, it would  be great if you could share your scripts.

Your workaround seems like it would work ok but generating all the 
thumbnails and keeping them updated seems a pain.

Hopefully the developers see this as a useful feature and stub it in 
soon. Even read only browsing access would be better than not showing at 
all. It would be great to have some kind of offline metadata editing 
with some kind of synchronization feature but I would be content with 
just read only.