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

[Maik Qualmann]

An explanation of the paths. The path to the database is stored in the 
configuration file or the corresponding database options (network address, 
port, user, etc.) for a MySQL database. There is currently no album path that 
is used, if you find such an option, it comes from a very very old 
configuration. The album root path is stored in the database for each 
collection. In current digiKam versions, it is very easy to adjust the 
albumroot path in the collection setup if the collection has been moved to a 
different drive or similar.

Maik

Am Dienstag, 26. November 2019, 16:46:44 CET schrieb Chris Green:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 04:12:17PM +0100, Simon Frei wrote:
> > On 26/11/2019 15:55, Chris Green wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 02:51:42PM +0100, Remco Viëtor wrote:
> > >> On mardi 26 novembre 2019 13:06:32 CET Chris Green wrote:
> > >> But going back to your original problem, if you need to work on a
> > >> separate and temporay collection, and you don't want to pollute your
> > >> permanent database, one option could be to create a separate user for
> > >> work on that tree, and use Digikam from there (and possibly other
> > >> programs). Fresh database and config, and not all that hard to switch
> > >> users on a modern Linux (though you wouldn't want to do it every 5
> > >> minutes, either).
> > > 
> > > Yes, I did consider doing that actually but it feels 'wrong' somehow.
> > > It also means I can't see both at the same time on the same desktop
> > > which is sometimes useful.
> > > 
> > >> And, if all you want to do is *view* a separate tree (as you stated),
> > >> perhaps Digikam isn't the best program to use (Gwenview comes to mind
> > >> as an easily available option if you use KDE, and allows you to show
> > >> metadata).> > 
> > > No, I want to tag things in a useful (and consistent) way, digikam is
> > > good at this.
> > 
> > digiKam comes also in a no-db variant: showFoto. For working on
> > something temporary you can just use that. If you then import the
> > temporary tree into the "regular digiKam", tags written to xmp/files
> > will be picked up.
> 
> Ah!  Now that really might be very useful, thank you.  I'd never
> realised that this is what showFoto is.