[digiKam-users] Sharing Database/Collections

[Tobias Bora]

I just found an interesting way to do that if you are familiar with git, even if it's not really trivial. You can use the amazing "git annex" project to version control your collection, and even keep a partial version of it locally. Git-annex allows you to sync it between several ''remotes" (can be usb key, or even encrypted google doc…), and keep only the part of the collection you want locally (git-annex always make sure that the file is always present on at least one remote before dropping the files). And all classic text files are version controlled, as with classic git.

Now, the idea is to ask digikam to store metadata *in an external xmp files* (git-annex turn all big files in read only mode, so you won't be able to include metadata inside the photo directly). These xmp files would then be kept in the git repo, and you should now be able to merge the two repos when you synchronize again two remotes.

(NB: I've not tested this myself, but I know people have been using it)

Now, if you don't want to use sidecar xmp files, git-annex provides a wax to add metadata to any file. That way, you can say "keep on my computer only files with at least 3 stars". And I *think* (to be checked) that these metadata are also mergeable. Usually, they are exported from exif info, but you can specify manually new metadata for each file. The only issue is that digikam does not support this kind of tagging. I saw a thread where somebody wanted to implement git-annex metadata in digikam, but as far as I know the project was not finished.

Hope it can help,

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tobiasBora

Le 18 septembre 2019 18:23:34 GMT+02:00, Andrey Goreev <aegoreev at gmail.com> a écrit :
>I do not think digiKam can do that...
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>On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 10:19 AM tsader <t_sader at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> I have been using Media Pro like this. I work on the same
>Catalog/Albums on
>> two different machines and have the image folder copied on both.
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>> When I do all my work on one machine I later sync it with other by
>backing
>> up the Albums and Folder with chronosync which only syncs the changes
>and
>> not copying over everything again.
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>> I tried that method with Digikam but it doesn't like the changes made
>to
>> the
>> images folder or maybe I am not doing something right.
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