Hi
The way I've been working with shotwell so far is to point it's library
to my ~/photo directory, where (obviously) my photos are located. So I
didn't use the "import from folder" menu entry, simply pointed
edit->preferences->library->library location to where the photos were
already located.
It seems to work just great, also when adding new photos to this
directory, AFAIR it even works if I move a photo between folders
(something I normally don't do). But are there any drawbacks to this
strategy? Would it work with my large collection of old photos mounted
from an usb drive into ~/photos (the library location), and what would
happen, when that usb suddenly is not mounted when the laptop is away
from the usb drive? I realize I won't have access to the photos when the
usb is missing and that shotwell would probably report those as missing...
The plan is to mount the same folders on my wifes laptop over NFS. Would
that work too?
And now a really hacky idea I got: We would like to share the database
(the tags, edits and ratings), would it be possible to simply share
~/.shotwell in dropbox (with a symlink in place pointing from ~/shotwell
to somewhere in ~/Dropbox)? I guess that would require the directory
structure of ~/photos to be exactly the same... Which bad things would
happen if we both run shutwell at the same time, each accessing and
updating ~/.shotwell at the same time? If not, are there a better way of
looking at the same files, working with the same shotwell information
(edits, ratings and tags) from two or more computers?
And finally: how important is it that the shotwell versions are the same
on two computers (provided it even works with a shared db somehow)? I'm
running arch on my laptop, she's using ubuntu (10.10 I think)...
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Atte
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