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

[Tyler Smith]

Thanks Gilles, that makes sense. 

Tyler

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On Tue, Jan 31, 2023, at 3:01 AM, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 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 :
>>
>> 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
>>
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