Nokia photos configure paths

I migrate from lifeblog to nokia photos recently.
First impressions are good no matters some minors trouble I had.
Now I wants to manage confuguration tu use it in a little bit specific way.
What I need to know is:
Where nokia photos stores sms/mms/notes ?
Where nokia photos stores information about paths to the folders (pictures/clips)
I thought this infos are in NokiaPhotos/...*.db3 files but seems to me that I'm wrong about it.
I want to use Nokia photos on two computers in following scenario:
I have on both computers network drive mapped as l: in which I have l:\photos and l:\clips and I manage to setup one computer tha t use those foledrs for nokia photos and imported/linked data in it in nokia photos.
Now I tried on other computer just to copy db3 files and when I open nokia photos to have same data (images/clips/sms...) as on first computer.
But this is not the case.
I see same situations on second computer that I had before I copied db3 files so that confused me a little bit.
Idealy I would want to have all private data on that l: drive and use it form nokia photos on 2 computers (not at the same time off course)
What can i do about that?
Change some config files? registry keys? Anything please ?

Thank you for your reply cricfancy
I know about File -> Tools -> Settings -> Synchronisation -> Location for images
But this is to set default folders when synhronizing.
What I needed is where photes stored data for pictures that are already imported in nokia photos (which can be anywhere on the disk...)
I think that I m sure now that this infos is in NokiaPhotos/.../MDataStore.db3
and Nokia Data Store/.../MDataStore.db3 files
When I copied those two folders to notebook and map l: disk to same folder with pictures and videos (sms, notes etc.. are in those MDataStore.db3 files for what I know)
This "sync only once" thing is good to know anyway but if I would have a way to put Nokia Data Store and NokiaPhotos folders to that L drive and tell NokiaPhotos on both computers "This is where your mdb3 files are!" that would be great.
I didnt need to sync more then once. When I sync from one computer that will apear on the other computer as well. As long as they have access to L drive ofcourse.
All I have to do is to make sure not too run nokia photos on both computers at the same time.
Unfortunately I dont see how to do that.
Ok this is not in the interface and I respect that decision because this isn't thing that most users will do so why confused them...
But this isnt in the registry or config files either so those users who need to change that and are let say litle advanced or enthusiastic cant change that either.
As far I see those paths are hardcoded in dll files so this isn't easy or legal to change those paths
Any solution that I had so far to use some sync. program to sync those folders between computers.
If someone have solution for this please let me know.
If you can put those settings to the next version of Nokia Photos will be great too.

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