[digiKam-users] Sharing Database/Collections

[Andrey Goreev]

I thought the author wanted to cache images from NAS to a laptop while on LAN then work on the cached images while on a road and then sync the changes back to NAS when back home.It is a brilliant idea but I don't think digiKam can do that.Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
-------- Original message --------From: Sveinn í Felli <sv1 at fellsnet.is> Date: 2019-09-19  3:32 a.m.  (GMT-07:00) To: digikam-users at kde.org Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] Sharing Database/Collections 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,Sveinn í Felli
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