AlbumRoots for multiple client access

[Jasper]

Good day,

 My current digikam db seems a bit broken, on startup scanning for new images never finishes, and the behaviour has just got worse recently...

 In an attempt to understand or fix this I am starting again - All metadata is (hopefully) written to the image files, and the MySQL db's and digikam settings are backed up... jjust in case 8)

Can I add an album/collection in such a way that multiple clients (digikam instances) across my network can use the same database with images stored on a central server?

 In the past I have tried this with the NFS mount point being the same on multiple machines, but this failed I assume due to the volume UUID. By failed, digikam on another machine with the same album root (/media/Images, mounted via NFS) still scans for new images as if it was a new import.

 My primary digikam instance is on the server which contains the files so would really like to not use NFS or SAMBA directly.

Cheers,

Jasper

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[Andrew Goodbody]

On 30/12/14 19:57, Jasper Mackenzie wrote:
> Can I add an album/collection in such a way that multiple clients
> (digikam instances) across my network can use the same database with
> images stored on a central server?

As I said on the 1st December:-

Please look at the bug here https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261277 
It contains information about updating the albumroot entry and you can
even have multiple values for accessing the same files from different
systems, in comment #13. Unfortunately there is still no GUI frontend to
edit this in a user friendly manner.

Andrew
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[Jasper]

>> Can I add an album/collection in such a way that multiple clients
>> (digikam instances) across my network can use the same database with
>> images stored on a central server?

>As I said on the 1st December:-

>Please look at the bug here https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261277 

 Quite embarrassing, so you did.

It works perfectly, only caveat is that the SpecificPath must be / (well, is ignored anyway if anything else)

I also agree that album root would be useful to have at least an overide locally in digikamrc.

Many thanks and Happy New Year.

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