On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Atte André Jensen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? > Shotwell would report those photos as missing, although they'd show up again as soon as the drive/connection was re-established. It's not really the way we intended Shotwell to be used, but there are plenty of other users who work this way. > 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)... > This is a very, very bad idea! If you're able to get both Shotwell instances to run, you would end up with a corrupt DB in the event both were able to write to it. However, I do have one piece of good news -- there has been talk recently in adding a Zeroconf-based mechanism for sharing between two Shotwell instances over a local network. Keep in mind this isn't yet being developed, but there is some demand for it and it's still being discussed. - Eric _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
