[digiKam-users] New to DK - questions.

[Remco Viëtor]

On mercredi 20 mars 2019 09:52:44 CET Andrew Goodbody wrote:
> Yes there is a way to use the same db from different OSes. See
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261277 where a patch was added to
> let you specify multiple paths in albumroot so each system can have its
> own version at the same time. However there is STILL no UI to do this
> and everyone keeps forgetting about it and it is not mentioned anywhere!
> 
> Also IMHO a better plan would be to move the albumroot setting into the
> rc file (which is local to each system), but that suggestion is simply
> ignored by the developers.
> 
> Getting this sorted properly would be a major step forward in the
> usability of digikam.
> 
Agreed that getting the multi-system issues sorted properly would be a good 
step. 

But when you have a remote (networked) collection, there's a very good chance 
that it will be accessed from different terminals (and not just through 
different OSes). And *that* means you'll get concurrent access sooner or 
later.

>From what I gathered here, concurrent access to the database is *not* 
supported yet. Result: sooner or later you will get database corruption. With 
all the headaches that causes.

So, until that kind of issues are dealt with, it might not be the best of 
ideas to make multi-system access too easy (and noting the caveats in the 
configuration dialog isn't enough, in practice).

Remco