[digiKam-users] Second copy of Digikam on Windows 7 PC possible?

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

the digiKam binary has few option from command line to switch to a specific
configuration file. Under Linux it's easy to do :

[gilles at localhost 8.x]$ digikam --help
Usage: digikam [options]
Professional Photo Management with the Power of Open Source - A KDE Family
Project

Options:
 -h, --help                  Displays help on commandline options.
 --help-all                  Displays help including Qt specific options.
 -v, --version               Displays version information.
 --author                    Show author information.
 --license                   Show license information.
 --desktopfile <file name>   The base file name of the desktop entry for
this
                             application.
 --download-from <path>      Open camera dialog at "path"
 --download-from-udi <udi>   Open camera dialog for the device with Solid
UDI
                             "udi"
 --detect-camera             Automatically detect and open a connected
gphoto2
                             camera
 --database-directory <dir>  Start digikam with the SQLite database file
found
                             in the directory "dir"
 --config <config>           Start digikam with the configuration file
                             "config"
[gilles at localhost 8.x]$

The option "--config <config>" is the right one for your use case. Look
also "--database-directory <dir>".

These options are also available under Windows of course. Just call
digikam.exe from a simple Windows batch script must do the stuff.

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le ven. 8 avr. 2022 à 05:18, Shel Ritter <shelritterbmw at yahoo.com> a écrit :

> I've had a copy of Digikam installed and working well on my Windows 7 PC
> for some time now. Recently I find myself wanting a separate copy of
> Digikam to incorporate an completely different library of photos. Is that
> possible?
>
> I was wondering if that mcould be done by making a copy of the
> \<user>\AppData\Roaming\digikam folder, and uninstalling the program,
> deleting (or just moving) the original data folder, reinstalling it, and
> importing a different folder & sub-folders from a different file library.
> Then just switch the 2 \AppData\ folders when I want to switch between
> libraries. I'm guessing things probably aren't that simple. Is the any
> chance there's a more sophisticated method if possible at all?
>
> I'm also wondering if there's any way to have DigiKam use the existing
> files in the new library instead of copying them all to a separate
> location. My libraries are pretty large.
>
> Thanks for any feedback folks.
> Shel
>
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