Re: Using a shared Photos directory

["Yo'av Moshe" <bjesus gmail com>]

You should probably not only use the same Photos directory, but also
the same .db file. This way, I believe, you can share your photos
database.

Yo'av.

On 2/26/06, Jordan Miller <jordan d miller gmail com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I was wondering the best way to use a shared photos directory with F-Spot.
>
> My finance and I share a computer and have individual user accounts. We
> store all of our pictures on a /home/shared/pictures directory that all
> users (her and myself) have access to. We want to start using F-spot, but we
> would like to control the directory it imports photos to.
>
> We would like to be able to specify what F-spot uses as the ~/Photos
> directory and instead of having one for each user, pointing that to
> /home/shared/pictures.
>
> I have thought about creating a symbolic link between ~/Photos and
> /home/shared/pictures for each of our accounts so that whenever it tries to
> write files there, it will put them in the /home/shared/photos dir.
>
> Does anyone know how to do this using F-Spot now? I have searched the web,
> but am unsure and don't want to ruin all of our photos.
>
> Take care,
>
> Jordan
>
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