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

[Chris Green]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 11:26:58AM +0100, Remco Viëtor wrote:
> On mardi 26 novembre 2019 10:33:07 CET Chris Green wrote:
> > woenx <marcpalaus at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Otoh, I'd rather not see creating a new database remove all the careful 
> configuration of defaults I did in the program (e.g. displayed metadata, 
> sidecar use and data, ...)
> 
Well, personally, I wisj the database would go away altogether! :-)

I want *all* my settings stored with the image files so that I know
that when I back them up I have saved everytyhing important.  Yes, OK,
I know others don't want to work that way but I don't think I'm in a
minority of one!  :-)


> > My expectation (which is the way things are with many programs) is
> > that the location of the database and of the albums would be set in
> > the configuration file.  If this isn't so (as it isn't with digikam)
> > this should be made clear at the beginning of the documentation.
> 
> Did you notice the "Album Path=" and "Database File Path=" entries in 
> digikamrc ([Album Settings] section)? Looks like those give the location of 
> the databases (not the names!) and of the album roots (they do on my 
> system...). 

The database path is there but there's no sign of album path in my
config file.  I'm pretty certain the album paths are stored in the
database so if they were/are in the config file as well then it will
cause problems won't it?

-- 
Chris Green