[Digikam-users] Syncing Digikam collections and databases between different computers

[Gilles Caulier]

UUID is used to identify a disk, especially with removable media.

Gilles Caulier

2014-12-01 21:39 GMT+01:00 Jonathan Ballet <jon at multani.info>:
> I would be happy to try to propose a patch to remove this from Digikam,
> but I would have liked to know first why there was such an UUID stored
> (I guess there's a good reason?) and if there was a chance for a patch
> to be accepted...
>
>  Jonathan
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 08:25:39PM +0000, Mick Sulley wrote:
>> Yes agreed!  I think it should be possible to arrange a SQLite script to
>> auto run to change the UUID back to what it expects, but I have not tried
>> it.  I cannot really see why the UUID is in that record at all, the path is
>> there and that should be sufficient I would have thought.
>>
>> If you do come up with a way to automatically sort it out please share.
>>
>> Mick
>>
>>
>> On 01/12/14 20:07, Jonathan Ballet wrote:
>> >Hi Mick,
>> >
>> >thanks for your reply!
>> >
>> >On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 06:54:10PM +0000, Mick Sulley wrote:
>> >>Hi Jonathan,
>> >>
>> >>Yes I raised this when I started using DigiKam, as far as I know there is no
>> >>proper fix.  If you just accept at the message it works OK, just takes a
>> >>little time.  It is also possible to add a database script to fix it, here
>> >>is an answer that I received to that question back in 2013.  I never got
>> >>around to creating the script, I just accept when asked.
>> >I would be OK just to accept this, but my laptop is not *that* powerful
>> >and it takes ages just to rescan all the images, even if nothing
>> >changes.
>> >
>> >I'm going to try such a script, as you mentioned, although it's going
>> >to be, at best, impracticable.
>> >
>> >I actually wonder what is the purpose of this UUID. If I choose to store
>> >the content of Digikam's database into MySQL, is this also stored? I
>> >supposed that using a remote database server was to allow sharing
>> >between several computers, but if it's stored, that more or less defeats
>> >the purpose of having a remote database, isn't it? And if this UUID is
>> >not stored, then I wonder what it is using SQLite?
>> >
>> >Hum, I guess I'll need to have a look...
>> >
>> >  Jonathan
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