https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427183
Bug ID: 427183
Summary: Use database (and thumbs) for 'volatile' local storage
(like a git-annex repository)
Product: digikam
Version: unspecified
Platform: Debian stable
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: Database-Sqlite
Assignee: digikam-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: a...@disroot.org
Target Milestone: ---
Dear digiKam-team,
thanks a lot for your work on digiKam - it's an awesome piece of software!
Never the less I'd love an additional feature to be implemented (or maybe it is
and I just wasn't able to find it - in this case please point me to a how-to).
SUMMARY
I have a lot of images. I have them inside a git-annex repository (see
https://git-annex.branchable.com/) which allows me to back them up easily and
at the same time keep the links and the structure inside my folder system,
since git-annex allows to replace actual binary files (read: images) with
symlinks to an empty file (the concept is strange, but extremely powerful, see
e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgVXg0eRws4).
When using digiKam and the images are there, everything works fine. But as
soon as I replace the images with symlinks, I'm no longer able to see my image
thumbnails - and I assume that this should be possible since the thumbnails are
stored within the SQlite database.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. point a 'local collection' to a git-annex repository
2. remove the local files (so that only the symlinks are kept)
3. open digiKam
OBSERVED RESULT
The files are missing from the collection.
EXPECTED RESULT
The thumbnails should be available (since they are stored in the local
database.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux: Debian Stable 'buster' using the Kernel 4.19.118-2+deb10u1 (actually
'PureOS 9 amber', which is based upon Debian Stable)
KDE Plasma Version: ??? (I'm using i3 as my WM)
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.54.0
Qt Version: 5.11.3 (built against 5.11.3)
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