Hi Digikam Team,
the since a few years I'm using digikam to manage my photos and it works great. But the last year my private IT has changed and the photo collection gained size. So I'm working now a small laptop (befor desktop pc which allot of space) with a ssd which can't store my full photo collection. The Photo collection is on my private Server.

Now I just sync the albums I'm currently working with, or I wan't to show someone on my Laptop. This works, but has some not nice side effects.

Every time I sync a Album to my laptop it is imported into Digikam and when i remove it, the photos are removed from digikam.

To view all pictures in digikam I have setup a remote collection, but this is slow. 

So I had the Idea to make a new collection, between local and network Collection. So a local Collection, where the elements and thumbnails are not removed if the hole folder is missing. This would allow to select in the nextcloud client the folders which should be offline or local available. Maby someone has an good Idea how to enable to only sync jpg to the local machine while keeping the raw file on the server.

This would be a small start of a cloud sync feature. Think further there are a lot nice thinks which could be done. For example integrating the sharing, like it is integrated in dolphin. Or even further give a option to do task which need's a lot of computational time on the server. Like face recognition or preview generation. 

thanks for the great product your are already serving
with best regrets 
Arne