On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Thierry Le Guillou <[email protected]>wrote:

> I have my pictures collection stored on /media/data/Pictures and all other
> common pictures in /home/Thierry/Pictures.
> So I call "shotwell  -d /media/Aux/Pictures" when I want to manage my
> collection and "shotwell" without argument when I just want to see standard
> pictures in My images directory.
> But since the preferences are saved in .gconf/apps/shotwell, the
> information about the import directory is shared, so it is the same for the
> two profiles, and then I get a big mess with auto-scan, or I don't auto scan
> but I have to change the directory each time.
>
> So, could it be possible to store the profile information in the same
> directory than database. So profiles will really be independants and related
> to the -d option ?
> Thierry
>

We have a ticket for turning this use-case into a more general feature,
where you can have multiple Shotwell "profiles" and each profile can have
its own database and preferences.
http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/2146

  - Eric
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