[Digikam-users] How to update photo collections?

[Marie-Noëlle Augendre]

You're way behind on versioning...
With Fedora, I'm on Digikam 2.9.0 from the ordinary repos. And 3.0.0 is in
RC stage.

Marie-Noëlle


2013/1/18 Kim <kim.mills at wightman.ca>

> 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<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
>>
>
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