SUMMARY There is an option (--database-directory) to open digiKam using a different database, but there is no way of creating a new, different database. If I want to create a different, independent, unrelated image collection/database and manage it completely independently, I could set up different databases and use --database-directory to choose one upon start-up, but how do I create these different databases? This is a feature request (unless I'm missing the command to create a new database), so I'm leaving the rest of the fields blank. STEPS TO REPRODUCE OBSERVED RESULT EXPECTED RESULT SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: Linux/KDE Plasma: (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: KDE Frameworks Version: Qt Version: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Git commit 2c86d69214ed1866dfba576015f27521ca3c4889 by Maik Qualmann. Committed on 03/11/2021 at 11:39. Pushed by mqualmann into branch 'master'. no check for existing SQLite DB with database directory option FIXED-IN: 7.4.0 M +1 -1 NEWS M +3 -1 core/libs/album/manager/albummanager_database.cpp https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/commit/2c86d69214ed1866dfba576015f27521ca3c4889
Thank you for the quick reaction! Can you, please, give a short explanation of what is going to be different now?
A dialog was displayed that the database do not exist, this is for normal configuration if the database has been moved by the user. When a database directory option is passed, the database is created automatically. I would also use the "--config" option, you can then use a separate configuration for each database. Often makes more sense. The config file must exist as an empty file when it is started for the first time. Maik