[digiKam-users] Question on multi user environment

[Andrew Goodbody]

On 25/02/2020 09:06, sse450 wrote:
> Dear friends,
> 
> First of all, I would like to thank all the devs for such a really 
> really nice and sophisticated software. Finally, I was able to ditch LR.
> 
> I have just setup digikam with pictures and mysql database on a network 
> share. And imported 50K+ pictures to digikam. All work fine and fantastic.
> 
> I understand that digikam is not ready for the prime time of multi PCs. 
> Using just 1 PC at a time (among 1xLinux, 2xWin10 PCs) is also OK for me.
> 
> Is there a way to achieve this? Or what is the best practice to access 
> the same pictures through the comfort of digikam (tags, search etc.) 
> using multi PCs?

There is no really good answer to this but it can be achievable with 
some effort.

First of all sqlite databases over a network are heavily discouraged as 
it is very easy to corrupt them, so you need to use an external mysql 
server for the database. Unfortunately mysql has not had the same level 
of testing as sqlite. I believe that support has improved but I have no 
idea how robust it is in reality, there are people using it so it should 
be fairly OK, but it is still marked experimental. YMMV.

Secondly there is no way to make the mount point in Windows identical to 
the mount point in Linux. Which is where the information in this bug may 
come in use - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261277 - I am not 
sure why it ever got closed as there still seems to be no GUI way to do 
this :-(

Unfortunately you are still liable to the various computers arguing over 
which locale is in use...

Andrew