[digiKam-users] Second copy of Digikam on Windows 7 PC possible?
Shel Ritter
shelritterbmw at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 13 00:07:55 BST 2022
Thanks again to Gilles for pointing me to the correct DigiKam config
file, digikamrc in hopes to set up a batch file for switching between to
separate instances of DigiKam in Windows. But I'm still stuck at trying
to figure out how to create that 2nd DigiKam installation in Windows to
enable switching between the two. I could rind the installer again and
select a different folder for the installation, but I'm afraid in the
process Windows will overwrite crucial files critical to the 1st
installation. Thanks for any thoughts on this.
Shel
On 4/8/2022 12:33 AM, Frédéric Da Vitoria wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Sorry to interfere here, but I am new to digiKam and I'd like to
> understand. Unfortunately, the digiKam documentation does not seem to
> mention command line options.
>
> So Gilles, are you saying that Shel should start digiKam with
> something like
>
> digikam.exe --config
> C:\Users\<user>\Documents\new_digiKam_config.cfg
> --database-directory C:\Users\<user>\Documents\new_digiKam_db.sqlite
>
> and that digiKam will create a new config file and a new database ?
>
> Other question: did starting digiKam as Shel did break anything ?
>
> Le 08/04/2022 à 08:57, Gilles Caulier a écrit :
>>
>> 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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> Frédéric Da Vitoria
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