Re: [Shotwell] remote photo file storage - possible?

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

On Thu, 2019-05-09 at 13:35 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-05-09 at 10:21 -0700, rikona wrote:
> > I'm considering moving all my photos to a network attached storage
> > device (NAS) so that family members can view all the pix taken by
> > everyone. This is on the local net only, not accessible outside the
> > local net. Is it possible to use shotwell on each local computer
> > such
> > that ALL the pictures, tags, events, etc are seen by everyone, no
> > matter who sets it up? If so, what do I need to do to make this
> > work
> > asdescribed? If not, is there a better way to approach this goal?
>
> I do not see why not;  with the use of --datadir=DIRECTORY
>
> You'd just need to make sure Shotwell always got started with that
> option, and not more than one person was editing the repository at a
> time.

And make sure that the remote storage is never! unavailable when
starting Shotwell. Otherwise it will mark the files as unavailable and
it might need a re-import afterwards