[digiKam-users] Multi-user digiKam setup?

[Gilles Caulier]

Le sam. 26 janv. 2019 à 02:13, Leo Gaspard <digikam-users at leo.gaspard.io> a
écrit :

> Hello,
>
> I'll try asking just one last time, by decreasing order of importance:
>  * Is digiKam not unbearably slow when the pictures are on a WebDAV and
>    the database a remote MySQL?
>

The Webdav storing was never tested here, at least be me.

The network is the bottleneck here. Mysql thumbnails storing is the part
which use the network bandwidth a lots. With 6.0.0, Maik has optimized the
network use with Mysql.


>  * Does putting the digiKam database in MySQL put the WebDAV password in
>    the MySQL?
>

No idea...


>  * Does digiKam work properly with collections on read-only filesystems
>    and especially read-only WebDAV?
>

Read only is not a problem is you don't want to change the files data.


>  * Does anyone have any feedback about sharing a digiKam database with
>    other people (and not only other computers from the same person)?
>
>
This kind of workflow is not implemented yet... You can only sync the file
metadata with database and sync back a remote storage. It's so far not
optimal.

In all cases the database do not contains yet the guards for concurrent
uses.

Gilles Caulier


> (more details in the quote below)
>
> Cheers,
>   Leo
>
>
> Leo Gaspard <digikam-users at leo.gaspard.io> writes:
>
> > Hello world!
> >
> > I have tried IRC to bother the fewest possible people, but it looks like
> > #digikam at irc.freenode.net is dead, so let's try here. Sorry for the
> > noise!
> >
> > I am considering using digiKam, but as my use case is kind of peculiar,
> > I thought I would first ask whether you think I have chances of
> > succeeding at what I'm trying to do.
> >
> > Context: I'm trying to setup a shared photo database with my family for
> > all our photographs. Photos will be shared over NextCloud, and hopefully
> > digiKam would be used to both tag them and synchronize the tags. Now,
> > the photo database is kind of huge, and not all computers are able to
> > download it in full. In addition, not everyone has the same taste for
> > photos, so I think it'd be better if everyone only had write access to
> > their own directory, and read access to others'.
> >
> > My currently imagined solution:
> >  * Each user puts their pictures in their write-for-them read-for-all
> >    folder in Nextcloud
> >  * Everyone runs a digiKam instances. Tags are synchronized either
> >    through MySQL or by just adding the SQLite database to the Nextcloud
> >  * digiKam is setup to directly fetch the photos from WebDAV from the
> >    Nextcloud instance
> >
> > So my questions are:
> >  1. Do you have advice on whether to pick MySQL or synchronize the
> >     SQLite database over Nextcloud? (I will have linux, windows and mac
> >     clients) Will sharing the database not risk sharing the WebDAV
> >     credentials?
> >  2. Does digiKam handle well-enough collections on read-only folders?
> >  3. What do you think about the overall idea?
> >  4. Bonus question: Ideally users could also have their own private
> >     databases that are not shared. Does digiKam handles properly
> >     switching between two databases, ideally  with one that includes the
> >     other?
> >  5. Trick question: If an answer is no, is there any project other than
> >     digiKam that could handle these requirements and that you would know
> >     about?
> >
> > I've searched a bit the manual and didn't find much about these
> > questions, and I must say I'd rather request an opinion from someone
> > knowledgeable before starting the setup, that will likely be kind of
> > long and complex, especially if done with MySQL. Sorry if the questions
> > are already answered someplace I didn't find!
> >
> > Cheers, and thank you for digiKam that looks like some nice piece of
> > software!
> >   Leo
>
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