[digiKam-users] digikam on external drive, shared between machines

[Maik Qualmann]

Different mount paths on different machines will be possible with digiKam-8.0.0 for network collections.

https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/collections_settings.html#the-network-shares-specificity

Maik

Am Dienstag, 31. Januar 2023, 04:02:43 CET schrieb Tyler Smith:
> Hi again,
> 
> I've moved my database on to my external drive, and it doesn't appear to be
> markedly slower than when I had it on a local drive. So far so good!
> 
> Now I'd like to set up digikam on a second laptop, using the photos and
> database stored on my external hard drive. Does the drive need to have the
> same path on both machines?
> 
> On the original machine, the drive gets mounted on /media/smithty/rucksack,
> with the database in ./rucksack/digikam/, and the photos in
> ./rucksack/photos.
> 
> On the other machine, my user name is tws, so /media/smithy doesn't exist.
> If I mount the drive at /media/tws/rucksack/... will that work, or will
> digikam expect the drive to be at the same path on both machines?
> 
> I could set up a new mount point on both machines, /dev/digikam/ if needed.
> If that's the case, then I'm not sure how to update the database to look
> for the photos in the new location. There are clear instructions for
> copying the database and photos from one location to another, but in this
> case I wouldn't be copying the files, just changing the mount point/path to
> them.
> 
> I hope that makes sense! Thanks again for your help.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Tyler