[Digikam-users] Searching images on usb disks

[Marina Ciatta]

Il 2014-09-20 18:48 Gilles Caulier ha scritto:

> Please read this report and especially the last comment from Marcel :
> 
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191494#c29
> 
> For more details, ask to Marcel in this file through bugzilla.
> 
> Gilles

Thank you very much Gilles for the infos.
Emm, probably the discussion about thumbnails formats was flying a bit 
too
high over my skull, but the last comments are clear, how to handle in 
search
results images that can't be edited because absent.
So, a not implemented feature, perhaps a disabled (greyed out command) 
edition.
Ok, so not a bug, just a wish for a future version :-)

Thanks again,
Marina


Il 2014-09-20 19:03 jdd ha scritto:

>> I wouldn't go that way, as I could be very complicate and confusing, 
>> and
>> lead to mistakes ...
>> I'd rather use bigger disks and/or more units.
> 
> I see a use case, for an agency with several photographs, each with his 
> own
> disk.

This is exactly my use case. Not in a press agency context but only with
images collections, stored on several disks owned by several different 
persons.
(Persons that kwon each other, friends, colleagues, students)

> by the way if it's only for statistics, a sqlite script is not that 
> difficult
> to write, sql is pretty simple and example are available everywhere

Not for statistics, only search in available images (i.e. collections 
that have
been scanned once, and disks returned to their owner).

(This is not a weird idea nor an alien usage, all books libraries work 
that way.
In a library you can search the database with your own criteria, 
keywords, topics,
authors, then get as results all books matching the criteria. And this 
doesn't
imply they are all available at the moment. Some may be on shelves, some 
others
may be outside, borrowed by other readers. The important fact is to know 
they
exist and how to get access to them.)

Thanks anyway for your suggestions,
Marina


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