[digiKam-users] New to DK - questions.

[Maik Qualmann]

The AlbumRoot can not be moved to an RC file. It is part of the SQL query.
We already have a patch for multiple AlbumRoots, I'll write more tonight.

Maik

Remco Viëtor <remco.vietor at wanadoo.fr> schrieb am Mi., 20. März 2019 10:39:

> 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
>
>
>
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