[digiKam-users] A question about management across digikam on mac and ios devices

[Henrik Hemrin]

I have not really considered your question. Anyone, one idea.

Do you need them to be stored on your mobile device or is it acceptable 
to access them online?

An option for the latter would be to store them in an online photo 
catalog and access them via the browser (or maybe a catalog service that 
have an app). I mean, the catalog can be on your own web site, a service 
from eg Nikon, Flickr and so on and so on. It should of course be a 
catalog that can read your metadata and structure. A drawback, beside 
the need of internet connection, is that even with a secure login there 
is always a risk of privacy and security violation.

Regards

Henrik

Den 2023-01-15 kl. 19:31, skrev Bill Allen:
> I've got thousands of images that I manage on my mac that I've got 
> organized into folders. I've tagged all the images using DigiKam which 
> writes those tags to the images themselves. I use an iPhone and iPad 
> and would like to share those images on those devices, but as far as I 
> can tell the only supported way to do that is to import them into 
> Apple Photos which takes over all management from that point on as it 
> loads the photos into its own database which 1) isn't accessible by 
> digiKam, 2) basically invalidates the folder organization that I've 
> got. I know that Photos on the mac allows one to "import" while 
> retaining the file structure, but that misses the point since I still 
> won't see those images on the IOS devices unless they are actually 
> imported into the Photos DB.
>
> I should note that my folders are all stored on iCloud so in principle 
> they're available on IOS via the files application, but that provides 
> no ability to search by tags, date, etc. which was the point of 
> tagging and dating them in the first place. What I'd love to find is 
> an IOS application that "imports" the images from iCloud, which 
> actually leaving them in place so if I make edits on the mac, they are 
> there. Needless to say since I'm writing this that I haven't found any 
> such application, but I'd love to be proven wrong.
>
> The only solution that I've come up with is to basically just give up 
> on the notion and export photos from DigiKam to a folder on my mac and 
> import them to Apple Photos which will make them available to my IOS 
> devices, but not allow for any updating other than an export/import 
> cycle.
>
> I can't imagine that many people have read this far, but if you have 
> and have some insight I'm missing I'd love to hear it.