[Digikam-users] Some questions re collection on Network Share

[Marcel Wiesweg]

As Andrew pointed out, using SQLite via a network file system is not 
guaranteed to be safe as the situation regarding file locks may be somewhat 
undefined. Nonetheless, if you dont put the shared file under concurrent use, 
things should work.

If you have the collection as a local collection on one machine, and as a 
remote collection on the other, digikam cannot know it's the same.

For a quick solution how to use simply the mount path as collection 
identifier, provided there's the same mount path on all machines, see the 
(undocumented, unofficial, but inofficially supported) procedure described 
somewhere here:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175923


> I keep my Digikam images on my desktop machine in /home/chris/pictures.
> 
> I have exported /home/chris/pictures as an NFS share so that I can see
> the pictures on my laptop too.  If I run Digikam on my laptop and
> specify the NFS /home/chris/pictures directory (wherever it's mounted
> on the laptop) as a "Collection on a Network Share" will the laptop's
> Digikam use the same database as the desktop one?
> 
> At present the laptop seems to be re-scanning all the pictures in
> /home/chris/pictures and that's not what I want really, it will take a
> *very* long time and it's pointless anyway as the work has already
> been done by my desktop and put into the Digikam database.  Can't I
> tell the laptop to se the already existing database file?