[digiKam-users] Digikam-users Digest, Vol 200, Issue 47
Milind Joshi
mmjoshi at iitbombay.org
Wed Jan 26 06:33:05 GMT 2022
Thanks Gilles Caulier. That worked beautifully.
On 26.01.2022 12:44:18 am, digikam-users-request at kde.org wrote:
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> 1. Open two instances of database (Milind Joshi)
> 2. Re: Open two instances of database (Gilles Caulier)
> 3. autocrop (Cesar Inacio Martins)
> 4. Re: autocrop (Gilles Caulier)
> 5. Re: how to move collections (Ty Mayn)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 17:57:23 +0530
> From: Milind Joshi <mmjoshi at iitbombay.org>
> To: digikam-users at kde.org
> Subject: [digiKam-users] Open two instances of database
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> Is it possible to open two separate database instances simultaneously? I
> have two databases, one on the local hard drive and the other one on a
> USB drive. Sometimes I want to open these databases simultaneously. Any
> workaround if it is not possible in a straightforward manner?
>
> mj
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 13:45:34 +0100
> From: Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
> power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org>
> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] Open two instances of database
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> Hi,
>
> Look on command line interface :
>
> [gilles at localhost bundle (master)]$
> ./digiKam-7.6.0-20220124T102546-x86-64.appimage --help
> -- digiKam Linux AppImage Bundle
> -- Use 'help' as CLI argument to know all available options for digiKam
> application.
> -- Notes: to integrate this bundle to your desktop, use AppImageLauncher.
> -- to enable all debug messages on the console, use 'export
> QT_LOGGING_RULES="digikam*=true"'.
> Check library libudev.so.0
> Check library libxcb-dri3.so.0
> Check library libcrypto.so.1.1
> Check library libssl.so.1.1
> -- Preloading shared libs:
> :/usr/lib64/libxcb-dri3.so.0:/usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.1:/usr/lib64/libssl.so.1.1
> 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 bundle (master)]$
>
> --database-directory is your friend.
>
> Note: --config can be also used to specify a global digikamrc config file
> at startup.
>
> Best
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
>
> Le mar. 25 janv. 2022 à 13:27, Milind Joshi <mmjoshi at iitbombay.org> a
> écrit :
>
>> Is it possible to open two separate database instances simultaneously? I
>> have two databases, one on the local hard drive and the other one on a
>> USB drive. Sometimes I want to open these databases simultaneously. Any
>> workaround if it is not possible in a straightforward manner?
>>
>> mj
>>
>>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 11:28:33 -0300
> From: Cesar Inacio Martins <cesar.inacio.martins at gmail.com>
> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
> power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org>
> Subject: [digiKam-users] autocrop
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> Hi,
>
> Using Digikam 7.5 .
> Is There any setting to allow adjustments for the autocrop?
> I need to work with it in batch mode , but I need to tune it , since they
> cropping anything.
>
> This is images scanned from negatives using a scanner for that purpose.
> They have few black columns/rows near of the border.
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 16:07:40 +0100
> From: Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
> power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org>
> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] autocrop
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> Hi,
>
> Well, no. Autocrop, as the same said, is fully automatic. Typically, the
> goal was to crop a panorama image with black borders due to the photo
> assembly. The algorithm detects the borders on all sides and computes the
> largest size of image without the borders. The expected color on the border
> is black of course.
>
> Best
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> Le mar. 25 janv. 2022 à 15:29, Cesar Inacio Martins <
> cesar.inacio.martins at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Using Digikam 7.5 .
>> Is There any setting to allow adjustments for the autocrop?
>> I need to work with it in batch mode , but I need to tune it , since they
>> cropping anything.
>>
>> This is images scanned from negatives using a scanner for that purpose.
>> They have few black columns/rows near of the border.
>>
>>
>>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 14:13:58 -0500
> From: Ty Mayn <tyrus.mayn at gmail.com>
> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
> power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org>
> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] how to move collections
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> I am revived user low on the learning curve andbut I can respond to how I
> repaired a moved collection by going directly into the digikam4 data
> basefile. I have no experience in using the migration tool but I did grab
> a 2 year old collection and the files for digikam6 installation out of a
> backup location. They had been living on an even older workstation hard
> drive and I hoped that the collection would just operate by firing up the
> collection from a backup. Digikam6 did fine to display the thumbnails for
> the identical recursive tree of folders and file images... but it could not
> deliver the full image preview. I guess it could get to the thumbnails
> directly through the thumbnail database.
> Not understanding the migration tool..I installed DB Browser and
> studied the database field called AlbumRoots
> It has and identifier field and a path that allows the digikam display
> tools to fetch the proper full image .
> If ound that the identifier retained in the digikam4 was pointing to a
> UUID for the hard drive in the old workstation
> I had also moved the identically named folder and file collection under a
> new top level folder rather than root.
> The field titled "specificPath" perhaps should be titled "completePath"
> from root.
> To be safe I moved my identical folder collection to drive root (where it
> had resided on earlier workstation) instead of trying to add the toplevel
> folder to the specific path
> The format for the 2 fields identifier and specific path is
> volumeid:?uuid=NewHexstring /identicalFolderCollection
> With those 2 fields set digikam happily treated the moved collection as a
> native home.
> My post about this is on the inactive other digikam forum
> https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=256&t=173758
> I am a learner non programmer grasping for bits of info and I was
> relieved to find this direct way of repairing a collection and database
> which is identically positioned in a folder tree, but moved without advance
> planning.
> I am sure the many helpers on this list have addressed this structure
> in past postings,
> but the info is buried in the past until these email threads are
> gathered into a unified searchable document.
> Ty
>
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 3:42 AM frederic chaume <frederic.chaume at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All
>>
>> my current Disk is going to be out of sapce and I would like to move all
>> my collections (~50) from current Disk to a new one.
>> Then I would like to know what is the best process to do it.
>> I see a refresh button for each collection in DK configuration, is it
>> then enough to choose the new location ? can we do it after having moved
>> the collections ?
>>
>> FYI I'm using DK7.5
>>
>> thanks for advices
>>
>> frederic
>>
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