moving from app-image to gentoo repository

[Andrey Goreev]

I have both digikam from a repo and digikam appimage. They share settings and database files. I can open any of them at any time depending on each one I want. No conflicts so far.I have noticed I almost always use appimage because it is usually 3-6 months ahead.

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-------- Original message --------From: Jim Dory <james at dorydesign.com> Date: 2017-09-16  11:11 AM  (GMT-07:00) To: digikam-users at kde.org Subject: moving from app-image to gentoo repository 
Hello,
Hopefully this is an easy one:

A while back I moved to the app-image I think to get by some bug (I don't remember why) and when I did, I seemed to have lost several image tags. I have my digikam4.db and thumbnails-digikam.db on my local drive, and images stored on a NAS. I've pretty well rebuilt any lost tags.
I've never really understood well the tagging settings. Currently I have these set in Metadata:Under Write This Info to Metadata: all except Face TAgs.Under Reading and writing: Read from Sidecar filesIf possible write to rawUpdate file timestamp(Don't have Write to sidecar files checked.  ??) I have several formats over the years, currently raw files are Canon Cr2. Some converted dng.
So I'm thinking of moving back to the Gentoo repository for Digikam5.7 (currently app-image of 5.6). The reason to move away from app-image is just ease of updating. My questions are: Is there no real reason to stick with app-image in my case?How do I move back - can I just install (emerge) from Gentoo's repository, point to current folders where database and images are, and then uninstall the app-image if all is well? Is there danger to database to reopen app-image if there's a problem with repository digikam?
thanks for reading, Jim
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