Managing Stills & Video across linux and windows clients

[Maik Qualmann]

You'll probably have duplicate collections now, one for Linux and one for 
Windows.

Different operating systems use different root paths to the collection.

First, create the collection as a network collection on one operating system.
Then, on the other operating system, add the corresponding root path to this 
network collection using the "+" tool button.

Now both operating systems use the same collection in the database, despite 
different mount paths.

To save tags to video files, you must enable metadata writing with ExifTool.
Please note that ExifTool does not support all video formats.

Maik

Am Sonntag, 31. August 2025, 14:32:24 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb 
tedbar:
> I am running Digikam, V8.7, on Linux (Mint) and Windows clients. They both
> access a MySQL DB on an Ubuntu server. This has some challenges,
> particularly around Tag management (probably captions too), however, I am
> not using Captions at this point.
> 
> To get both Linux and Windows clients working there are effectively two
> collections for Pictures and two for Video. I tried aliasing the paths to
> get both to 'see' the images/videos in a single collection but was
> unsuccessful.
> 
> Having two collections, Linux 'sees' one while Windows 'sees' the other.
> 
> For Pictures metadata (i.e. Tags) are written to the files and from time to
> time the DB is updated from information contained in the files. This works
> OK but is very slow on a moderate size collection.
> 
> With video files (AVI format) this does not appear to work. Checking the
> files using exiftool the tags do not appear to be written to the AVI
> files. 
> 
> How does Digikam store the Tag info for AVI files?
> 
> Is there a smart workflow for using both Linux and Windows clients, against
> a common DB, which allows Tags set using one system to be recognised by the
> other?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
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