[digiKam-users] How to start a completely new and separate digikam from appimage?

[Chris Green]

Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maik
> 
> Am Montag, 25. November 2019, 21:21:58 CET schrieb Chris Green:
> > I want to run a copy of digikam completely separately from my main
> > picture album tree.  This is to view a temporarily created tree of
> > pictures.
> > 
> > Using the 6.4 appimage how can one do this?  I can specify a separate
> > database but I can't seem to make it use a separate config file.  If I
> > use the --config pointing at a new file it just complains that the
> > file doesn't exist.
> 
> The "--config" parameter is the right one. Only the specified file must exist. 
> So either a copy of an existing "digikamrc" or a new file with 0 bytes.
> 
Thanks, that at least explains why I couldn't get it to work! :-)

It seems a bit odd though, it makes it very difficult to start a
'clean' copy of digikam.

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Chris Green
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