[Digikam-users] How to update photo collections?

[Kim]

Dropbox is an online back up site (dropbox.com), they have both free and 
paid options.  You can either upload your files to it for a backup or 
install their app that puts a folder called dropbox on your hard drive.  
Any files you put in that are uploaded to your dropbox account.  Their 
app keeps your hard drive folder and your account on their website in 
sync.  If you change a file it uploads the newest copy to their server 
when you have closed that file.
So the photos are physically on my hard drive at all times.

I have my dropbox folder set up as it's own collection in DK.

I was trying to figure out how to get a newer version of DK, I found 
Philip's ppa https://launchpad.net/~philip5/+archive/extra
Installed that and tried to update DK.  It ended up removing DK, then 
would not let it reinstall stating dependency issues. Although it 
installed and changed a ton of stuff on my pc.
I ended up having to purge that ppa and then reinstall DK from the 
standard ppa.  For some reason instead of having the version 2.5 I had 
now I'm down to version 2.4.1.  I don't get it, this just isn't my day! 
LOL  I don't remember having installed DK from anywhere but the stock 
repo before so I don't know why my version is now older.

Is there an "easy" way I can install the latest stable version of DK?  
I've been using linux for almost a year now, but still consider myself a 
newbie.

Oh and even with going down a version, it still looks like it stops 
about 39% into scanning for new images.

Thanks,
Kim

On 01/18/2013 02:10 PM, brad wrote:
>
> for those of us unfamiliar with using dropbox, can you provide detail into
> your configuration of dropbox? How did you set it up? Is this dropbox folder
> its own Collection under DK, or it is a subfolder and part of a larger
> collection? If someone can reproduce your problem the higher likelihood of
> resolution.
>
>    - brad