[digiKam-users] Catalogues across the LAN

[Dean Jagels]

I've found that my startup time greatly improves if I set DigiKam to 
/not/ scan for new items at startup (settings -> Configure Digikam.. in 
Miscellaneous).  The side-effect, of course, is that you have to 
manually re-scan.  My NAS has roughly 25k images.

Do you also get the "cannot load" error when you preview an image 
(right-click and select preview)?  I've never experienced this symptom 
with my setup.

I do have issues if I return to a DigiKam session that has been idle for 
several hours.  I use Linux automount for my photos mount, and that may 
have something to do with it; I've never diagnosed it, though, so I am 
just guessing.  This may be similar to your question about having 
DigiKam open when you disconnect from your LAN.

FWIW, Lightroom was my preferred tool until DigiKam added manual control 
over thumbnail sort order (thanks, DigiKam developers!). I'm now using 
DigiKam most of the time.

Dean


On 2/26/19 5:12 PM, Mark Otway wrote:
> I'm having real problems with Digikam running on a catalogue that's 
> sitting on my NAS. It seems like it's just not set up to run this way.
>
> I have 400k photos in a NAS share, and have done a full import (into 
> an internal MySQL DB) which took over 2 days. I'd expect, at that 
> point, to be able to browse, search and generally work with the 
> catalogue efficiently when on my home network with direct access to 
> the NAS. However, the startup time is abysmal (a few minutes before I 
> get any GUI at all) and a lot of the time I just get white 'documents' 
> when searching or browsing, rather than thumbnails. If I double-click 
> one of the search results, I get the editor with a message saying 
> Cannot load "". Why would this be? Is it because I've had Digikam open 
> when I've left my LAN (i.e., had my laptop on at work), and so it's 
> 'lost' the connection to the NAS shared folder, and doesn't ever 
> restore it? If so, is there anything I can do to make it more resilient?
>
> I've tried Digikam 5.9, 6.0 and 6.1, and with SQLLite, and with 
> internal MySQL, and it just seems awfully slow and unwieldy. I was 
> really hoping that I'd be able to switch to using it as a replacement 
> for Lightroom, but so far the experience has made it unusable. Any 
> tips to make it work in a slick manner?
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