Digikam dropbox

[Remco Viëtor]

On jeudi 5 octobre 2017 18:00:36 CEST Dennis Powless wrote:
> I installed digikam on my laptop and set it up and it works as described.
> I later installed it on my desktop and was doing the set up and have errors.
> 
> I'm running ubuntu 16.04 LTS on both machines.
> 
> Digikam 5.5.0 on both.
> 
> My photos are stored in a dropbox folder that is shared between both
> computers, same name different ultimate paths to the folder.  I had saved
> the database information to that shared folder also.

And there you might have the problem:
the settings dialog states that a remote file system can not be used for the 
databases. A folder shared between two computers must necessarily be on a 
remote file system for at least one of the two.

The collections can be on a remote file system.

Remco