[digiKam-users] Second copy of Digikam on Windows 7 PC possible?
Shel Ritter
shelritterbmw at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 13 06:40:37 BST 2022
So where do I get a 2nd config file Gilles? Do I just make a copy of the
existing digikamrc file, and then edit it and change the 4 local folder
paths I see there to a new location?
This is what's in my current digikamrc:
Database Name=<DriveLetter>:/DigiKam/
Database Name Face=<DriveLetter>:/DigiKam/
Database Name Similarity=<DriveLetter>:/DigiKam/
Database Name Thumbnails=<DriveLetter>:/DigiKam/
Can I just make a copy named digikamrc2 and set:
Database Name=<DriveLetter>:/2ndConfig/DigiKam/
Database Name Face=<DriveLetter>:/2ndConfig//DigiKam/
Database Name Similarity=<DriveLetter>:/2ndConfig//DigiKam/
Database Name Thumbnails=<DriveLetter>:/2ndConfig//DigiKam/
And if that's all it takes, and I set the new path to a folder on the
system where the 2nd library files reside, will that avoid having to
copy a whole set of duplicates to a new location as was the case for my
current library?
Thanks for your help on this Gilles.
Shel
On 4/12/2022 8:29 PM, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You don't need to install 2 versions of digiKam binary at different
> places.
>
> You will run the same binary but with 2 different config files passed
> at startup. Use the right option from digikam.exe command line for
> that. Create a desktop icon with right properties to point of
> digikam.exe and use the right CLI options.
>
> At end you must to have 2 digiKam desktop icons pointing on 2
> different config files
>
> Best
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> Le mer. 13 avr. 2022 à 01:09, Shel Ritter <shelritterbmw at yahoo.com> a
> écrit :
>
> 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
>>>>
>>
>> --
>> Frédéric Da Vitoria
>
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