[digiKam-users] New to DK - questions.

[Cleaneasy]

Thanks Andrew.  Wow, this solution dates back to 2011!  I will have a closer look.

There does still seem to be the issue of string encoding - an OS saying that the old locale is "utf-8" and the new locale is "system". I've tested a little and once you commit to one on an OS the other OS will ask if you want to change it back.  I am not sure how concerned I should be about this. I don't want to test this myself so I'll stick to adding images from the same machine for now.

I'm comfortable knowing that transactions have not been implemented and concurrent access could cause problems.  My setup is just for home, so concurrent access will not be a problem.  I can understand not making multi-albumroot a GUI option at this time.  It's good to hear more DB work is coming - I assume bundling SQL statements using TCL is the bulk of the work.

UUID can be different but if both UUIDs have access there should be no issues (guessing - I have not seen the code.)   I can see how partial access by one UUID could cause problems - I'll check to make sure they both have full rights.

Also I don't understand the problem with keeping the albumroot local to the machine (RC file). It just seems right, but I know developers have the long view.

Kip



-----Original Message-----
From: Digikam-users <digikam-users-bounces at kde.org> On Behalf Of Andrew Goodbody
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 3:53 AM
To: digikam-users at kde.org
Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] New to DK - questions.

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.

Andrew

On 20/03/2019 03:11, Andrey Goreev wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
>