[digiKam-users] Offline mode

[Peter Teuben]

I would say that behavior is not acceptable. How many  pictures in your
collection. Can you quote the size of the two big sqlite files?

On Wed, Jul 8, 2020, 17:13 <aegoreev at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a Network Collection in my digikam which slows down the start up
> for sure.
>
> Normally I am okay with that and just start up digiKam 10-15 minutes
> before I actually need it.
>
> But sometimes I want to browse through some local pictures quickly and
> wish there was an option to start the application without access to remote
> and/or removable collections.
>
>
>
> *From:* Digikam-users <digikam-users-bounces at kde.org> *On Behalf Of *Peter
> Teuben
> *Sent:* July 8, 2020 1:44 PM
> *To:* digikam-users at kde.org
> *Subject:* Re: [digiKam-users] Offline mode
>
>
>
> Andrey
>
> here's my experience:
>
>     as long as you register your collection as being Removable, it should
> work. The problem happens when it's wrong, and when DK then starts, you
> loose all thumbnail (and maybe more). If your collection(s) are big, this
> could be an overnight process to sync back up to get a database that's
> working again.
>
> So I've learned how to get into sqlitebrowser and make a collection part
> of the Removables, instead of on the Local collections. I personally don't
> have any of Network Shares though.
>
> peter
>
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> On 7/8/20 3:33 PM, Andrey Goreev wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>
>
> Is there a way to start digiKam in offline mode (without network
> collections) ?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrey
>
>
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