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

[Sebastian Beer]

Hello,

I also have a huge amount of photos stored on my MacBook and organized by DigiKam. I sync them to my NAS. Synology provides an iOS app for photos on the NAS.
This might be a solution for you.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Sebastian Beer

> Am 15.01.2023 um 19:32 schrieb Bill Allen <dk at ballen.fastmail.fm>:
> 
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.