On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:30 AM, Stefan Monnier <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Try using Dropbox to do the synching, with links from your config > > files to ones in the Dropbox folder to maintain consistent views of > > Shotwell across the machines. Should even work with other OSs! > > I'd rather not have to pay 10-20$ per month for the privilege of > depending on some company I don't know. And AFAIK the Dropbox driver is > not Free Software (tho they don't say it out loud: they just don't say > much about it, whereas they clearly say that the nautilus plugin is open > source), so it's not an option for me. > > This said, you got me thinking, and maybe I could use a lightweight > Bazaar checkout, so the (large) repository doesn't have to be copied > onto each and every machine. > > > It sounds a bit dangerous though unless you are confident you can > > enforce the 'only edit on one machine between syncs' rule. > > Yes, in this respect, the support for replicating the database poses > similar issues to the support for sharing the database. > > BTW, this also brings us back to some ealier point in another thread: > if the metadata DB only stores redundant info and can be reconstructed > from the photo files, then the concurrent modification is only really > problematic when it is a modification to the same photo. > > > Stefan > > _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > You could try using Unison <http://www.cis.upenn.edu/%7Ebcpierce/unison/>, it handles bidirectional sync well. I've been using it for a few years. Unfortunately, that still leaves the database issues unsolved. Giacomo _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
