Digikam-users Digest, Vol 219, Issue 11

[Budge]

Hi Chris,
Many thanks.  Not had time to work on this yet but I see your strategy and seems good to me.  I need to understand a bit more about the relationship between the starting data from whatever camera or scanned negatives I have now which I shall call my "picture archive" and the database, once built.   Will return when I have my basic machine housekeeping completed as I am still cleaning up from a crashed directory!
Regards,
Alastair.

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>     1. Still having some problems getting started again. (Budge)
>     2. Re: Still having some problems getting started again.
>        (Chris Green)
>     3. Digikam 8.0.0 in Ubuntu Lunar (in Docker container) segfaults
>        in QObject::removeEventFilter when closing modal dialogs
>        (Tobias Langner)
>     4. Re: Digikam 8.0.0 in Ubuntu Lunar (in Docker container)
>        segfaults in QObject::removeEventFilter when closing modal
>        dialogs (Gilles Caulier)
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> Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2023 16:03:18 +0100
> From: Budge <ajebay at errichel.co.uk>
> To: digikam-users at kde.org
> Subject: Still having some problems getting started again.
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> First many thanks for the replies and the link to the new documentation.  Old paper V5 edition going to paper recycling and many thanks to all for the very significant work done on update the manual.  Brilliant but I have much to read!!!
>
> My second question concerns my present subscription to this list.  I have received the DigiKam-users Digest regularly since I re-subscribed about a year ago with Vol 207, Issue 28.  Suddenly things have changed and the last two Issues, numbers 9 and 10 were directed to my spam folder.  Since I have not changed anything at my end can anybody tell me how to correct this please?
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> Referring to my earlier post concerning access I had been trying to find a forum website similar to the forum used by openSUSE (https://forums.opensuse.org/) or OSMC (discourse.osmc.tv/).  I have the Digests but wish to have a thread to which I can respond and none of the links I have been sent works as I was hoping.  I may be getting senile but perhaps somebody can put me right.
>
> Finally and getting down to working with digiKam, although the binaries are available from the openSUSE repo site, the version there is only v7 and I see there is an up to date AppImage available so I am using that and starting to build my system.  This all may be too complicated but I do most of my work on two different workstations and have been thinking of storage of my raw picture data and the working database so that I can move reasonably effortlessly between machines.
>
> My picture data are stored on a dedicated directory which is saved on pCloud and synced to the same directories on both workstations. The sync is only enabled when necessary if any changes are made to the raw data for example adding new pictures.  The sync is not permanently enabled to prevent disasters!
>
> What I am thinking is to have the database on a NAS connected by NFS links to both workstations, which all are on the same private subnet, so that either workstation can work on the data.
>
> Is this a reasonable plan before I get any further?   I am sure organisations must use something similar to enable groups to work together but my needs are much more modest.  I would be grateful for advice and comments please.
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> Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2023 17:03:51 +0100
> From: Chris Green <cl at isbd.net>
> To: digikam-users at kde.org
> Subject: Re: Still having some problems getting started again.
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> Budge <ajebay at errichel.co.uk> wrote:
>> Referring to my earlier post concerning access I had been trying to find
>> a forum website similar to the forum used by openSUSE (https://forums.opensuse.org/)
>> or OSMC (discourse.osmc.tv/).  I have the Digests but wish to have a thread
>> to which I can respond and none of the links I have been sent works as
>> I was hoping.  I may be getting senile but perhaps somebody can put me
>> right.
>>
> If you change from digests to individual mails then the threads are
> all there for you, all you need is a decent MUA (mail client) that
> handles threads properly. I also have a filter program to deliver my
> mail so that (for example) Digikam mails all arrive in their own
> folder.
>
>
>> Finally and getting down to working with digiKam, although the binaries
>> are available from the openSUSE repo site, the version there is only v7
>> and I see there is an up to date AppImage available so I am using that
>> and starting to build my system.  This all may be too complicated but I
>> do most of my work on two different workstations and have been thinking
>> of storage of my raw picture data and the working database so that I can
>> move reasonably effortlessly between machines.
>>
> I use the AppImage too, on two Ubuntu systems.
>
>
>> My picture data are stored on a dedicated directory which is saved on pCloud
>> and synced to the same directories on both workstations. The sync is only
>> enabled when necessary if any changes are made to the raw data for example
>> adding new pictures.  The sync is not permanently enabled to prevent disasters!
>>
> I synchronise between my two systems (one a desktop, the other a
> laptop) using syncthing, there's no cloud involved.  (files are backed
> up as well but that's a different thing).  I have syncthing running
> all the time so synchronisation happens as/when I make changes.  I
> don't run Digikam on both systems at the same time of course.
>
>> What I am thinking is to have the database on a NAS connected by NFS links
>> to both workstations, which all are on the same private subnet, so that
>> either workstation can work on the data.
>>
> I simply let each system have its own database and this seems to work
> fine.  All I synchronise between the two systems is the album hierarchy.
>