Re: Offline Collections

[davideps]

Hello everyone,

I'm new to digikam and saw this thread about offline collections. Has  
anyone figured out a way to make this work? I'd like to keep  
thumbnails (large if possible) on my laptop and the full resolution  
files on an external drive that is sometimes connected but often not.  
I'd like the thumbnails and organizing tools always available for all  
images. Any ideas?

I half expected this function to work since the database is local. I  
just thought I would double-click on a thumbnail of a remote photo and  
get an error, but still be able to add tags, etc.


thank you in advance,
-david

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[Dotan Cohen]

2009/8/24 David Lawrence Epstein <[hidden email]>:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm new to digikam and saw this thread about offline collections. Has
> anyone figured out a way to make this work? I'd like to keep
> thumbnails (large if possible) on my laptop and the full resolution
> files on an external drive that is sometimes connected but often not.
> I'd like the thumbnails and organizing tools always available for all
> images. Any ideas?
>
> I half expected this function to work since the database is local. I
> just thought I would double-click on a thumbnail of a remote photo and
> get an error, but still be able to add tags, etc.
>

I am pretty sure that there is a bug on this, but I cannot find it. In
the meantime, take a look at this related feature request:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183170 (Cache remote systems:
Disconnected SSH / CD browsing)

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[davideps]

Hi everyone


Dotan, I read your suggestion about Dolphin. Have you found any  
work-around for using digiKam with offline content?

I am not a unix expert, but there should be a way to batch create  
small (say 600x400) images on a central machine for the whole  
collection. These could be tagged in digiKam. The tag metadata could  
be transferred to the original fullsize offline files upon  
reconnection. I'm wondering if a mirrored file structure and identical  
file names would make this less cumbersome.


Any thoughts?
-david


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[Marcel Wiesweg]

> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm new to digikam and saw this thread about offline collections. Has
> anyone figured out a way to make this work? I'd like to keep
> thumbnails (large if possible) on my laptop and the full resolution
> files on an external drive that is sometimes connected but often not.
> I'd like the thumbnails and organizing tools always available for all
> images. Any ideas?
>
> I half expected this function to work since the database is local. I
> just thought I would double-click on a thumbnail of a remote photo and
> get an error, but still be able to add tags, etc.

You will see that currently the collection will disappear as soon as you
unplug the storage medium.
The planned behavior is of course that you can access all collections
including "offline" ones at any time.
Everything should work in the backend but we lack integration in the UI, like
showing a hint when someone tries to open an offline image. That's why it is
in fact disabled at the moment.

Marcel
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