Hi Peter, welcome to the list, What you want to do is not actually supported, the FAQ has the answer for you: http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/Shotwell/FAQ#CanIaccessaShotwelllibraryacrossanetworkpossiblyfrommultiplemachines
You can still use your network to store your pictures (not your Shotwell database) and let Shotwell import these files into each computer. *Alexandre Rosenfeld* On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:21, Peter Bell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, this is my first message to the list. > > I am in the process of collecting all my digital photo images together onto > my protected network file server. I am considering the use of Shotwell as > an image management database. The photos and the database should be > accessible from any one of a number of computers on my lan. Also, the > database becomes almost as important as the images themselves, and should > also reside on the protected file storage. > > It seems to me that Shotwell has a shortcoming in that it expects to store > all the thumbnails and the database on the user's local file space, rather > than alongside the photographic images. > > Can this behaviour be controlled so that the thumbnails/databased are > stored, by default, in the same directoryas images are inported to? > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Peter Bell Mob: +63 (0) 9287 340 343 > Tagum City, Philippines. Tel: +63 (0) 84 400 5085 > email/msn: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0) 118 331 0000 > _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
