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

[Gilles Caulier]

Not at all. Yolov config file is for face recognition…

The digiKam config file is named digikamrc

Gilles Caulier
Le ven. 8 avr. 2022 à 08:41, Shel Ritter <shelritterbmw at yahoo.com> a écrit :

> Thanks for the input Gilles. Looking into the \AppData configuration
> folder, it seemed like the config file would have been: yolov3-face.cfg
>
>  Volume in drive C:
>
>  Directory of C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\digikam\facesengine
>
> 10:34 PM    <DIR>          .
> 10:34 PM    <DIR>          ..
> 08:16 PM            28,092 deploy.prototxt
> 10:34 PM                 0 dir.txt
> 08:16 PM        31,510,785 openface_nn4.small2.v1.t7
> 08:16 PM         5,351,047 res10_300x300_ssd_iter_140000_fp16.caffemodel
> 08:16 PM        67,740,572 shapepredictor.dat
> 08:16 PM             8,334 yolov3-face.cfg
> 08:26 PM       246,305,388 yolov3-wider_16000.weights
>    7 File(s)    350,944,218 bytes
>
> So I ran this, expecting to see my current installation boot:
>
> digikam.exe --config
> C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\digikam\facesengine\yolov3-face.cfg
>
> Instead DigiKam opened as if it was opening for the 1st time. It just
> wasn't recognizing yolov3-face.cfg as a valid config file, and opened as a
> fresh installation no matter what file I pointed it to. That initial window
> that pops up refers to, "The new location for configuration files is
> ~/Local Settings/ ~(old AppData/Local/). But the only Digikam files there
> are 2 simple text files in the root AppData/Local/ folder,
> digikam_systemrc 45 KB and digikamrc 88KB that the --config command ignores.
>
> I can't see any other locations where a valid config file might be. And if
> the --help output for --database-directory <dir> is referring to a folder
> that should literally be named dir somewhere, I couldn't find it.
>
> Admittedly I'm not great at the technical end of things. 😉
>
>
> On 4/7/2022 10:07 PM, Gilles Caulier wrote:
>
> 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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