q in digiKam 8.5 Appimage

[Dr. A. Krebs]

Dear:

I handle quite a large number of pics in ma collections.

*digiKam offers three paths*:

1.) local

2.) removable media (USB, e.g.)

3.) network-based media (NAS, e.g.)

The installation (databases) are located on a fast SSD drive with some
200 GB space.

Right now, thumbnails-digikam hat some 60 GB size; for no known reason,
digiKam would not restart and work again.

Aside, new recognising all files takes 4 to 7 days to finish!! I mean,
only reading, not reorganising, I guess, this is not reasonable any more.


*IDEA*:

  From an mathematical (statistical) sight, it would be extremely
advantageous to threat every path independently- limited risk to loose
the complete database.

Instead, potential risk to damage (loose) would extend only(!!) to the
files associated to one single path.

So, for local digiKam4.db, recognition.db, similarity.db,
thumbnails-digikam.de plus their -shm /db-wal associates.


*Even more consequent*, it would be most promising to uses this
independency for every user-selected directory. Reason:  some of my
(sub-)directories have several hundred of thousands of pics.

I believe this measure would contribute much to further stabilise usage
of digiKam even under worst case scenarios.

Hope you agree?


Best Axel

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MX LINUX 23.4, (debian based)

16 GB RAM