Hi, this is not as easy as it sounds.
In your case you would have to move the database to a new location or set read/write access on your database where it is. (Making a copy of the database is highly recommended.) This is one step more advanced. Shotwells database directory ist ~/.shotwell/ and photos are saved by default in the photo directory of your home. First a short version on how it can be done for a new fresh database. # You need to create a new group: addgroup shotwellusers # and put all the desired user into this group sudo usermod -aG shotwellusers user1 sudo usermod -aG shotwellusers user2 ... # then you need a public directory for all users # lets say we have a partition on /media/share/ # ... and we can create our public directory there sudo mkdir /media/share/shotwell/ # # and make two subdirectories sudo mkdir /media/share/shotwell/photos/ sudo mkdir /media/share/shotwell/db/ # changing permissions on this directory sudo chgrp -R shotwellusers /media/share/shotwell/ #################################################### # starting shotwell always will be following steps # this would be best encapsulated in one script #################################################### # change the create permissions umask 0002 # switch to the new group newgrp shotwellusers # and finally start shotwell shotwell -d /media/share/shotwell/db/ # import of photos need to be changed to following directory # /media/share/shotwell/photos/ # and always copy photos into shotwells directory since # all users should have read/write access to them Hope I could help. Maybe someone can form this into a nice howto and place it somewhere on the shotwell page. Greetings, Reimar Am Mittwoch, den 20.04.2011, 19:36 +0000 schrieb [email protected]: > Hi, > > I'm loving Shotwell. It works and its simple to use. > > Is their a "how to guide" on setting up Shotwell to enable multiple users to > share the same shotwell database file and view the same events/tag > information and fotos. > > Example: My wife and I share our photos on our Ubuntu machine in the same > directory. > > We both like to add Tags to photos in our photos directory. > > At the moment my wife has to sign in on my user account to do the updating > and to view photos using Shotwell. > > Can she use Shotwell via her profile to view the same photo gallery/database > with tag information and events? > > Regards, > Chris > Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! > _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
