moving from app-image to gentoo repository

[Jim Dory]

Thanks Andrey for the data points! Good to know.

/jim

On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 10:39 AM, Andrey Goreev <aegoreev at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
>
> -------- 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 files
> If possible write to raw
> Update 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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