[digiKam-users] Sharing Database/Collections

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Þann 19.9.2019 08:49, skrifaði Martin Burnicki:
> Andrey Goreev wrote:
>> I do not think digiKam can do that...
> 
> Shouldn't this work if the collection is in a cloud folder like
> Nextcloud (or Dropbox, FWIW)?
> 
> If you make changes to photo or an album (i.e. just the file or photo)
> on one machine then the changes are synchronized to all machines that
> share these folders, and if you start DK next time it will detect the
> changes and update the local database accordingly.
> 
> But of course this is only going to work if you write tags and other
> metadata to the image file or a sidecar file.
> 
> If you have configured DK to *not* write metadata (tags etc.) to the
> files but keep them only in the DB you'd have to synchronize the
> database in a consistent way, which can be much harder.
> 

IMHO it could be instructive to set up Nextcloud on a NAS over a LAN, 
and try out how Digikam reacts to such synchronization - both databases 
and image files. Probably I will test this kind of a setup, but not 
until late October when time permits.

Nextcloud/OwnCloud has fine-grained access-controls for users/groups and 
sharing, and has pretty advanced mechanisms for resolving conflicts in 
case of simultaneous edits.

I presume that if using a synchronized database one would have to share 
_all_ the files in each local collection _and_ the paths would have to 
be the same on all devices, right?

Anything else obvious?

Best regards,
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