[digiKam-users] Need help connecting to an existing SQL DB

[noreply at nospam.suro-mail.de]

I got the same question.

Is there a possibility to use the same folders for Linux and Windows 
systems? Any symlink which could be accepted?

What would be the manual workaround for the DB?

If I enter a Network share from Windows I get, 
"networkshareid:?mountpath=Z:"

Thanks!

 From: Digikam-users <digikam-users-bounces at kde.org> On Behalf Of Fred 
Wilhelm
Sent: Freitag, 22. Oktober 2021 15:53
To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with 
thepower of open source <digikam-users at kde.org>
Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] Need help connecting to an existing SQL DB

Holy crap! Thank you so much for explaining that.

It makes so much sense now.

I will go back and put this answer on all those other forums I've asked 
this on.

Thanks again Maik, you are my new hero for the day 😊

Fred

 From: Maik Qualmann
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2021 3:53 AM
To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the 
power of open source
Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] Need help connecting to an existing SQL DB

Different OS systems, as long as the mountpath of the images collection 
is

identical, is easily possible. However, if the mount path is e.g. "/mnt/

pictures" on one computer and "C:\pictures" or "\\SERVER\pictures [1]" 
on the

other, it is currently not possible without manual changes to an entry 
in the

DB.

Maik

Am Freitag, 22. Oktober 2021, 04:27:51 CEST schrieb Fred Wilhelm:

> So it is not possible to connect multiple computers to a single MySQL

> database?

> 

> Fred

> 

> From: Maik Qualmann<mailto:metzpinguin at gmail.com>

> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2021 2:38 PM

> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the 
> power

> of open source<mailto:digikam-users at kde.org> Subject: Re: 
> [digiKam-users]

> Need help connecting to an existing SQL DB

> 

> Sometimes nobody just doesn't know the answer. I don't know the 
> specifics of

> a Docker installation, nor do I know what a "Guacamole" client is. When 
> I

> google for the word, a dish of Mexican cuisine comes out. Yes, I also 
> found

> it to be an HTML5 web application, but I don't know it. Nobody can know

> everything.

> 

> Usually connecting to a MySQL server is not a big deal. But without 
> some

> debug logs from the terminal we cannot help. In addition, digiKam is 
> not

> really suitable for multi-OS, since the collection base path is 
> different

> between Windows and Linux. There is an undocumented solution for this 
> and I

> plan to make this available in the GUI, but currently it is not 
> possible

> without manual changes to the MySQL DB.

> 

> Maik

> 

> Am Donnerstag, 21. Oktober 2021, 19:57:20 CEST schrieb Fred Wilhelm:

> > Hi all,

> >

> > Am I doing something wrong? I have been asking this question for months

> > now

> > with no response. I've asked in tech forums and Reddit groups supposedly

> > dedicated to Digikam. No responses. If my question is too stoopid, please

> > tell me I am a moron but please tell me why. I simply can't find the

> > answer

> > to this anywhere.

> >

> > Fred

> >

> > From: Fred Wilhelm<mailto:siliconfalcon at live.com>

> > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 7:00 PM

> > To: digikam-users at kde.org<mailto:digikam-users at kde.org>

> > Subject: [digiKam-users] Need help connecting to an existing SQL DB

> >

> > Hi Friends,

> >

> > I have an Unraid server with the Digikam docker installation set to use a

> > MySQL server. Everything is working great and I love the product. Now,

> > however, I would like to install the Windows version of Digikam on my

> > laptop due to functionality issues in the Guacamole client. When I go

> > through the install, I am asked for the database connection info (which

> > connects fine) but, when it completes the install, it creates a new set of

> > empty tables and dumps my current database. I do not want to run the

> > Digikam server from my laptop because I have a cron job running to detect

> > faces as pictures are uploaded to my personal cloud and the Unraid server

> > is always running.

> >

> > I am looking for the documentation to install Digikam on my Windows 10

> > laptop to use the existing MySQL database on my Unraid server.

> >

> >

> > Fred



Links:
------
[1] file://SERVER/pictures
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-users/attachments/20211029/703702e6/attachment-0001.htm>