Using Digikam Database from Two (Linux) User Accounts

[Helen]

>I'd suggest placing the database (and the photo collection) in a directory
>where both accounts have write access (if both have to be able to modify
>data).
this question was similar to a question I've had, and your answer might
solve my problem as well as Rainer's.  How do you
put the database in a directory?  I'm not wanting a second access, I'm just
wondering how to back up the database somewhere
in case I lose my original (via computer crash or other unfortunate
incident).
Thanks much
Helen

On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 5:01 AM, Remco Viëtor <remco.vietor at wanadoo.fr>
wrote:

> On lundi 1 mai 2017 09:08:54 CEST Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am wondering if it is possible to use the digikam database from two
> user
> > accounts on a linux system. The main information I have in the database
> are
> > tags. If that does not work, would I help to write back the tags into the
> > photos itself?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Rainer
>
> I'd suggest placing the database (and the photo collection) in a directory
> where both accounts have write access (if both have to be able to modify
> data). If you have to restrict access to just those two users, you'll have
> to
> play with group membership and permissions.
>
> If you already have a database on one of the use accounts, you can test if
> access from another account is possible by changing the permissions (read
> permission for group should allow the other user to access the data). The
> other account would have to set up its version of Digikam to point to the
> database and image collection
>
> I'm not sure both accounts can access the data simultanuously; it's not
> something I'd try with SQLite or the internal MySQL server (and MySQL
> support
> is still marked "experimental in GK 5.5.0). But as you talk about users 'on
> *a* linux system' I assume that simultauous access isn't physically
> possible,
> anyway. And according to the settings dialog the databases have to be
> located
> on a *local* filesystem, anyway...
>
> Writing the tags back into the photos still means both accounts need write
> access to the image files (or even to the containing directories if you
> have to
> create sidecar files, for e.g. raw format files).
>
> Remco
>



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Helen Etters
using Linux, suse12.3
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