[Digikam-users] Searching images on usb disks

[Marina Ciatta]

Hello,

Well, I'm somewhat surprised that my question didn't raise any
answers, even negative ones.
Surprised because I couldn't imagine to be the only person to
have images on several usb disks...
I have probably to take it that it's not possible to organize
images not on the local disk. Sad for me :-(

Saluti,
Marina


Il 2014-09-05 22:01 Marina Ciatta ha scritto:

> Hello,
> 
> I am new to digikam, and to this list too :)
> Actually, I am being trying digikam for a future project.
> Briefly, the idea is to build a database for a large amount of
> images, images being stored on several usb disks (typically
> from 15 to 20).
> What is expected is to be able to search the database on keywords
> and technical hints on images. No images edition is necessary.
> 
> I did tests with 4 usb disks, plugging them one after the other
> and declaring new collection on removable media, then scanning
> for new images. All worked perfectly fine (though a bit long).
> 
> Problems come when I do some search tries, with some keywords
> I known they exist in many images. Nothing appears in the
> search results. Or, more precisely, only images belonging to the
> last scanned disk, still plugged, appear; not the others.
> 
> This is a bit surprising for me, as after reading digikam docs
> I thought all the indexing data, keywords, tags et al., was stored
> in a database local to my computer.
> I am aware that without a disk plugged, the image itself cannot be
> accessed nor edited, but shouldn't it appear at least in the search
> results icons views ?
> 
> How can I do that ? Did I misunderstand something ?
> Did I do something wrong ? Did I missed something, an option ?
> Help and hints would be warmly appreciated, thanks in advance.
> 
> Saluti,
> Marina



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