Hello,
Was hoping maybe the community can give me some ideas on an issue I’m facing… This isn’t really a support issue, rather more like a brainstorm thing to figure out a better workflow.
I’ve been looking into using Digikam to do some photo management. In particular I’m interested in its face recognition and tagging features. In the past I’ve used Picasa’s desktop application, which was great, but is discontinued. digiKam seems like the best alternative nowadays.
I have accumulated a lot of photos and videos over the years, reaching more than 1TB. I’ve put it in cloud storage (Dropbox, but slowly transitioning to self-hosted Nextcloud). By doing it this way, I am able to selectively download individual albums on the different devices I use (laptop, desktop, etc.) as well as conveniently browse my photos stored on the cloud without needing to download anything.
Now, I would like to run digiKam’s tools on my cloud based photos. But because of the sheer size of it, I cannot download the entire thing into my machine because I simply don’t have the space for it. I may be able to make some room, but not for long because I’d probably need that space for games or something else. So how should I go about managing my photos with digiKam if I cannot get all my photos all in one place at one time?
I am also considering alternatives, like Nextcloud’s Photos and Recognize module, but it’s nowhere near as full featured as digiKam, and I couldn’t get it to work anyway. Plus I’d much rather have everything stored in a file, if possible.