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

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi all,

Tyler asks for a removable media, as a USB memory disk.

For the Q about the same paths to use between different computers, the
response is yes. I recommend to use symbolic links to revolve paths
typo between  Linux OS.

Gilles Caulier

Le mar. 31 janv. 2023 à 07:56, Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> a écrit :
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> Different mount paths on different machines will be possible with digiKam-8.0.0 for network collections.
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> https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/collections_settings.html#the-network-shares-specificity
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> Maik
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> 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
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