https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224312--- Comment #9 from Rafael Rios <rsaavedra ono com> 2010-06-10 18:43:48 ---
Well, here I go, (you warned this is a long post writed and english is not my
mother language :) )
User cases
Case (1):
In my case, I have 2 USB HDDs, one at home (HDD_A) and the other in my parents
home (HDD_2). HDD_2 is the backup. In the HDDs I have the pictures and the
digikam's databases.
I always download pictures from the camera to HDD_A.
I would like to have them synchronized, by now, from time to time, I connect
both HDDs to my laptop and rsync from HDD_A to HDD_B.
It would be nice if I could export pictures and info about the lastest load of
pictures in digikam, for example packaging pictures files and DB, and them
importing them into HDD_2.
Summarizing: I would be nice to have a way of keeping sync diferents storages
with the respectives DBs.
Case (2):
I friend of mine, don't use digikam, he uses and tree structure in disk and
backups copies on DVDs.
He does the copies on DVDs overlaping the files from DVD to DVD, so a picture
is always at least in 2 o 3 (I can't remember now) discs.
This gave me the idea of digikam generating k3b project files, so in a DVD
could be the pictures and a "mini" database with the info about pictures.
This way, you could retrieve the part of your collection that is corrupted or
using all the DVDs to restore the complete collection.
I think that for this, in digikam you could track where are the backup(s) of
a particular picture, and when was done. Digikam could also alert the user to
make a new backup following a backup politic.
Summarizing: "Export" pictures+db to discs, and keeping track of where and
when the pictures and info where backed up.
From this, may be case (3), the following idea came to my mind: "pictures in
historic mode"
I know a professional photographer, he has a really large number of pictures.
You know, tons of shots to then only choose 4 or 5, but he would like to keep
all the pictures.
As you can guess, he uses tons of HDD space, but really only need to have the
last month of pictures in the HDD of work, the rest are best keeped offline on
other storages, (eg: NAS, USB HDDs, etc).
It would be nice to have digikam to manage this case. You can put part of
your pictures in "historic mode", pictures in this mode, are not accesible to
digikam but digikam could maintain the thumbnails and other info. You can
browse the collection although part of the collection is not available to
digikam in that moment.
In some way, case 2 and 3 are similar. But historic are not a backup only a
part of the collection that is parked.
Also from this another idea came, but I think that is off-topic for this
thread, but it is related to the work done by the person in case 3.
I would be nice if I could "link" a picture form a folder to another. I new to
digika, so i could miss something in digikam.
Suppose I have a folder "trip to Paris" with photos, and suppose I have a
folder "panoramic" with panoramic views. I wish I had the photos in "trip to
Paris" and in the "panoramic" a "link" to the actual file that is in the "trip
to Paris" without having to duplicate the photos in both folders.
Sorry the long post and my bad english.
Rafa Rios
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