Using external media with digikam

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Hi,

I have an external harddrive, which contains a folder with a lot of
photographs. I would like to see this collection in Digikam on my computer,
however I want to be able to also see my current collection. Is this possible
and how? BTW downloading the external drive to my harddisc is not an option
because there is far too little on the internal harddisc. Oh, and I run
Digikam 0.9.0 (until Gentoo has something new in Portage).

I hope I made my problem clear,
best wishes,
Christoph Bergemann
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[Gerhard Kulzer]

Am Sunday 04 March 2007 schrieb [hidden email]:

> Hi,
>
> I have an external harddrive, which contains a folder with a lot of
> photographs. I would like to see this collection in Digikam on my computer,
> however I want to be able to also see my current collection. Is this
> possible and how? BTW downloading the external drive to my harddisc is not
> an option because there is far too little on the internal harddisc. Oh, and
> I run Digikam 0.9.0 (until Gentoo has something new in Portage).
>
> I hope I made my problem clear,
> best wishes,
> Christoph Bergemann
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Yes you can do that. Just mount the external drive within your defined base
library ('current collection') of digikam.

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[Duncan Hill-5]

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> Hi,
>
> I have an external harddrive, which contains a folder with a lot of
> photographs. I would like to see this collection in Digikam on my computer,
> however I want to be able to also see my current collection. Is this possible
> and how? BTW downloading the external drive to my harddisc is not an option
> because there is far too little on the internal harddisc. Oh, and I run
> Digikam 0.9.0 (until Gentoo has something new in Portage).

Digikam, last I checked, does not offer a way to view multiple
collections at once.  That said, you -might- be able to get away with a
unionfs of the two directories, but the sqlite database will probably
get seriously confused if you do that, so make a backup before trying
(or create a test area and point digikam at the test instead).

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Gerhard Kulzer wrote:
> Am Sunday 04 March 2007 schrieb [hidden email]:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have an external harddrive, which contains a folder with a lot of
>> photographs. I would like to see this collection in Digikam on my computer,
>> however I want to be able to also see my current collection. Is this
>> possible and how? BTW downloading the external drive to my harddisc is not
>> an option because there is far too little on the internal harddisc. Oh, and
>> I run Digikam 0.9.0 (until Gentoo has something new in Portage).

AFAIK, you can only _import_ your images in the actual digikam. I
don't know if this mean a raw copy of the images themselves or only
inclusion of them in the database.

However, this is not handy for a removable media, as said, the
database will be confused.

It would be a reaaly great thing to have the data base written at some
place near the photos (we could, for example, have the database file
on a folder and all the albums on the subfolders) and have digikam
access only the given database.

This could allow inclusion of a database on a dvd for a true backup
(read only, of course)

jdd

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[Gerhard Kulzer]

Am Sunday 04 March 2007 schrieb jdd:

> Gerhard Kulzer wrote:
> > Am Sunday 04 March 2007 schrieb [hidden email]:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have an external harddrive, which contains a folder with a lot of
> >> photographs. I would like to see this collection in Digikam on my
> >> computer, however I want to be able to also see my current collection.
> >> Is this possible and how? BTW downloading the external drive to my
> >> harddisc is not an option because there is far too little on the
> >> internal harddisc. Oh, and I run Digikam 0.9.0 (until Gentoo has
> >> something new in Portage).
>
> AFAIK, you can only _import_ your images in the actual digikam. I
> don't know if this mean a raw copy of the images themselves or only
> inclusion of them in the database.
>
> However, this is not handy for a removable media, as said, the
> database will be confused.
>
> It would be a reaaly great thing to have the data base written at some
> place near the photos (we could, for example, have the database file
> on a folder and all the albums on the subfolders) and have digikam
> access only the given database.

But that is the case today, the database is in the root library folder.
So if you don't want to mix removable drives with fixed directories, you can
do that. All it needs is switching around by changing the Album library path
in the setup page. First time it takes a while to scan the new location and
create the database. The second time it goes very fast. This way you can
switch between different locations within seconds. The remote drive will be
managed as a separate entity.

P.S. Crazy thing is, i switched to my music folder and digikam became a player
instantly, all pieces ordered in time.

> This could allow inclusion of a database on a dvd for a true backup
> (read only, of course)
>
> jdd



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Gerhard Kulzer wrote:

> But that is the case today, the database is in the root library folder.
> So if you don't want to mix removable drives with fixed directories, you can
> do that. All it needs is switching around by changing the Album library path
> in the setup page. First time it takes a while to scan the new location and
> create the database. The second time it goes very fast. This way you can
> switch between different locations within seconds. The remote drive will be
> managed as a separate entity.

good, but not completely. I just tryed and I can't use digkam for a
collection on dvd.

I considere this as a bug :-)

In fact I have a message: "you wont be able to wrtie comments" (very
nice), but the "OK" button keep gray so the folder can't de used :-(

jdd

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[Gerhard Kulzer]

Am Sunday 04 March 2007 schrieb jdd:

> Gerhard Kulzer wrote:
> > But that is the case today, the database is in the root library folder.
> > So if you don't want to mix removable drives with fixed directories, you
> > can do that. All it needs is switching around by changing the Album
> > library path in the setup page. First time it takes a while to scan the
> > new location and create the database. The second time it goes very fast.
> > This way you can switch between different locations within seconds. The
> > remote drive will be managed as a separate entity.
>
> good, but not completely. I just tryed and I can't use digkam for a
> collection on dvd.

True, because you write access for the database. Sorry

> I considere this as a bug :-)
>
> In fact I have a message: "you wont be able to wrtie comments" (very
> nice), but the "OK" button keep gray so the folder can't de used :-(
>
> jdd



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