* [email protected] <[email protected]> [04-22-18 15:52]:
> Hi,
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> I’m trying to find a concept how to use darktable from two computers
> simultanously.
>
> I learned from google, that one can either sync the library.db file or use
> one one common.
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> I decided to use one common library.db.
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> So far I havn’t tried to use a second PC.
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> My questions:
>
> * There is a lock file, when I’m trying to open two instances of dt on
> the same PC. Isn’t this a problem for my case?
there is, and I would think it would be.
> * There is a second db-file. Seems I cannot relocate it. At least I
> cannot set a path on it. What’s its content?
contains setting, hotkeys and styles and perhaps more,
~/.config/darktable/data.db
on linux
> Georg
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>
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> BTW: I’ve been using dt now for alomost one year on linux, but have moved to
> windows 10 now, since my ubuntu died ☹
:(
ps: I frequently utilize a second computer, laptop and start dt as:
darktable --library :memory: --configdir /tmp/dt
I can then import the photos to my work computer and keep the edits.
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