Ubuntu – Shotwell with Dropbox

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I import all my photos with Shotwell into a folder within my Dropbox so all the photos are available to other devices. However, most importing is done on Linux laptop and while photos are available on the Linux desktop (a separate machine) the databases seem to be different so I have difficulty locating photos. Can anyone suggest a remedy ?

Supplementary question – if I add tags to the photos on, say the desktop, are these applied on the laptop as well ?

Best Answer

I would suggest two things:

  • First - use symlinks to route shotwell into using the pictures directory of the dropbox folder for its photo store.
  • second - ensuring you do not have shotwell open at the same time on both machines - although dropbox has conflict resolution, for the shotwell internal db files it will probably only allow you to select one or the other of the versions.

This method should mean the tags will be shared too.

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