On 27 September 2011 01:47, Stefan Monnier <[email protected]> wrote: >> I know this doesn't help anyone here in the immediate term, but we've had a >> ticket open on finding a way to share between machines for some time: >> http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/1292 > > But this seems to be about having concurrent access to some particular > set of photos. While I do care about this as well, the problem I'm > after in this thread is the case where the photo database is replicated > rather than shared. > > This is because I have several machines (desktop at home, desktop in > the office, my laptop, my wife's laptop, my netbook, you name it...) and > I want to be able to access my photos from any one of those machines, > even when they're not connected. I do have the disk space needed to > keep a separate copy on each machine (tho I guess a subsequent request > would be about having only some part of the photo database replicated). > > Currently, I do that by rsync, but it means that the mirrors can only be > read-only, whereas I want to be able to make changes from any one of the > mirrors and have it reflected later on on the other machines.
You could possibly use Dropbox with symlinks to sync across the machines, alternatively there are a number of bi-directional sync apps though I have not tried them. You will have to make sure that you do not make changes on two machines at the same time (or between syncs) otherwise you will get in a mess, so good backup strategy would be necessary. It sounds a bit dangerous though unless you are confident you can enforce the 'only edit on one machine between syncs' rule. Colin _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
