digiKam in a dual-boot system?

[Christoph Huckle]

Hi Carsten,

I'm having at the moment (want to transition to MySQL) two databases, one
on a Linux machine and one on a Mac.
I keep them up to date by copying, not very efficient that's why I want to
go to MySQL. The Albums are on a server and are then mounted in different
ways on both machines. I modified the entries in the "AlbumRoots" as
follows:

networkshareid:?mountpath=/home/christoph/Photos/2014&&mountpath=/Volumes/Photos/2014

The first part "mountpath=/home/christoph/Photos/2014" is the linux path,
the other one for the Mac.
Both PCs find the pictures without issues.

Best regards,
Christoph

Carsten Fuchs <carsten.fuchs at cafu.de> schrieb am So., 21. Aug. 2016 um
12:08 Uhr:

> Hi Christoph,
>
> I too checked this out a bit more, and I think that the problem can be
> generalized as
> follows:
>
>         "The file system paths of the digiKam database files and the album
> roots occasionally
> change (optionally with the relative path from the database files to the
> album roots not
> changing). How can this be addressed?"
>
> Examples include dual-boot systems, multiple installations (e.g. copying a
> backup to a
> different computer that is used only for viewing the albums) or simply
> moving the album
> root directories in the file system.
>
> I found that with digiKam 5.1, file ~/.config/digikamrc has the paths to
> the database
> files: Setting the paths appropriately solves the half of the problem with
> moved
> database file locations.
>
> Am 19.08.2016 um 16:55 schrieb Christoph Huckle:
> > The biggest question there is where do you store your pictures? NAS?
> Separate partition?
>
> That's a good one. I have not yet tried this out, but maybe the second
> half of the
> problem is fixed if the album roots are on an USB or NAS drive -- anything
> that keeps
> the album paths or UUIDs constant.
>
> As I use different harddisks (e.g. in the backup "view only" system) on
> different
> platforms (Windows, Linux), file system paths to the same album roots are
> often
> different. (Maybe there is a clever trick with symlinks or file:// URI
> schemes, but I'm
> not aware of any.)
>
> > There is no feature for this, but you can add multiple paths in the
> Digikam Database
> > manually and then it (somehow) finds the correct one.
>
> Yes, that sounds promising – but digiKam identifies albums by their ID in
> table
> "AlbumRoots", doesn't it? The ID at least (along with the custom
> "identifier") would be
> unique, even if "label" and "specific path" were kept the same.
>
> I wonder if there is indeed a mechanism that identifies multiple entries
> in table
> AlbumRoots as referring to the same album?
>
> Best regards,
> Carsten
>
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