I’m a very happy digikam user. I had some issues a while back with very slow updates/refreshes of the database. With help from this forum I solved that by moving the database off my external hard drive and onto my laptop’s internal storage.
That’s been great! But, now I can only sort my photos on my laptop. I’m at work, and have my photos with me on the external hard drive, but without my digikam database I have to search through them by hand.
Is there a good way to get around this issue? The obvious answer is to move the db back to my external hard drive, but that makes the program nearly unusable with the frequent ‘hangs’ while I wait for the database to catch up.
What I do when I want to work on my laptop instead of my PC (I have a copy of my images on a SSD):
use SQLite as database
replace the databases from the digikam installation on your laptop with those from your pc
open digikam4.db in DB Browser for SQLite on your laptop
run a script with following commands
update AlbumRoots set identifier=“volumeid:?uuid=e44f-854f” where id=1;
update AlbumRoots set specificPath=“/home/kurts/Bilder” where id=1;
You should enter appropriate values for identifier and specificPath
Don’t know if you need the second command, take it as an example for other parameters.
Replace volumeid and specificPath with the correct values and replace the quotationmarks if you compied the lines from this side with those from your keyboard; they look similar, but are different characters and will lead to an error! Click on the left blue triangle to run the script.
Then, click on “Write Changes” - only with this the data will be written into the db.
While I was waiting for a response, I changed the local path of my two synced collections using the preferences in DK. Which worked.
Given that it was a few clicks, perhaps I should continue doing that?
I’m experimenting with DK, to sync face tag into Darktable, which is great - although I can’t get DT to recognise Star rating changes or labels made in DK.
