[digiKam-users] New to DK - questions.

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi all,

There are some problematics to share the same databases between Linux and
Windows through the network :

1/ the concurrent access can break the database. There is no lock mechanism
in digiKam to prevent this kind of problem.
2/ the string encoding are not the same : Linux=UTF8, Windows=!UTF8.
3/ the file path are completely differents.
4/ the UUID computed to identify the collection mount path can be different
(code from KF5::Solid are not the same : I'm not sure)

There are plenty of bug reports in bugzilla about this topic. The problem
is know.

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le mer. 20 mars 2019 à 04:13, Andrey Goreev <aegoreev at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hello,
>
> You are correct on what digiKam DB is.
> You would need to add your images as Collections in Settings.
> I am not sure if there is way to use the same database from both linux and
> windows though because paths to images will be different.
> The only way I see is to write to sidecar files.
> But maybe someone else in this room already figured that out?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrey
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Digikam-users <digikam-users-bounces at kde.org> On Behalf Of Cleaneasy
> Sent: March 19, 2019 9:00 PM
> To: digikam-users at kde.org
> Subject: [digiKam-users] New to DK - questions.
>
> Greetings!  I am really looking forward to getting more familiar with
> digiKam!
>
> I may have been too enthusiastic starting out. I read the article "Use
> digiKam with a NAS and MariaDB" and then installed the windows version and
> a
> linux version, and put a MariaDB on my freenas.  All went well after a
> short
> learning curve.  I do still have a few questions I could not find in past
> posts or the FAQ.
>
> Perhaps this is obvious, but where are the images stored?  Does the DB just
> store thumbnails, metadata and pointers to images? If so how can I use both
> linux and windows since the pointers stored in the DB will be different
> even
> if they point to the NAS which both machine can see, but with a slightly
> different paths?
>
> In any case I am sure it will be pretty important to update digiKam on each
> platform at the same time. Until I get this figured out I'm only using
> linux
> to add photos.
>
> Thanks!
> Kip
>
>
>
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