q in digiKam 8.5 Appimage

[Remco Viëtor]

On lundi 20 janvier 2025 12:12:38 heure normale d’Europe centrale Dr. A. Krebs 
wrote:
> 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?

I can't agree, as I don't understand what you want...
What exactly do you propose?

Remco