Sharing digiKam between Windows and Linux (no network, same machine)

[daniel bip]

Hi there,

What I personally did at the end was loading the library locally (Settings
> Collections > Local Collections) from one of the instances (Windows) and
then loading it shared (Settings > Collections > Collections on Network
Shares) from the other instance (Ubuntu). Works well for me, no problems
when changing from one instance to the other.

Hope it helps.

BR,


d.



On 22 February 2017 at 19:49, Shlomi Vaknin <shlomivaknin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, I actually have the same problem.
> @Andrey, I tried that, but lots of items did not pass (probably were
> stored in the DB), such as tags, descriptions etc.
>
> Perhaps I am missing something simple, or is there another way?
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 7:25 AM, Andrey Goreev <aegoreev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have just added the same collection twice. One was d:\Pictures while
>> the other one was /media/d_drive/pictures. Worked for me.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
>>
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: daniel bip <daniel.mail.public at gmail.com>
>> Date: 2017-02-17 3:36 AM (GMT-07:00)
>> To: digikam-users at kde.org
>> Subject: Sharing digiKam between Windows and Linux (no network, same
>> machine)
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I've been using digiKam for Windows for a long but I find it quite slow
>> and buggy and decided to move to Linux, so I installed a virtual machine in
>> the very same computer and tried to access the very same DB and
>> storing-directories from both "sides".
>>
>> But when I launch digiKam from Linux it tells me that it can't find the
>> location of the pictures. Once launched it displays stars, tags, and even
>> thumbnails but it can't open pictures, as it can't find them in the HD. My
>> guess is that digiKam can't find them because the information in the DB
>> regarding the location is Windows-styled, and those directories from Linux
>> are structured differently (ie: C:\fotos\ for Windows and
>> /media/sd_D_DRIVE/ for Linux).
>>
>> Can someone point me how to setup the DB in order to be able to open
>> digiKam from Windows and Linux with the same config files? If possible...
>>
>> If not, how do you recommend me to set everything up in order to be able
>> to open from both sides?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> BR,
>>
>>
>> d.
>>
>
>
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