Issue with Digikam and Removable media

Hi team,
I have a problem using removable discs with Digikam 4.13.0 on Maxc OS X. 10 (Yosemite).
In the Preferences I set the place of the Digikam Data Base on the hard disk of my computer (Screenshot  01).
Then I added as Local Collection  an Album located on my computer in the Folder "Pictures " and called "Photos à Classer "
Then I added a new collection (called Photothèque 01) located on a removable (external) hard disc. At this moment appeared the message shown in the screenshot 02 (very hard to understand the meaning ???)
I clicked OK twice to close the Collections window of the Preferences.
All the Album of the removable media was imported very well.(Screenshot 03)
Then I quit Digikam and disconnect the removable disc
Now when I re-open Digikam :

• with the external disc disconnected :
•  The Album " Photothèque 01" of the removable média doesn't appear (Screenshot-04) and in the Preferences I can see that the Collection "Photothèque" has moved in the Local Collection.(Screenshot 04)
  
• if I connect at this moment the external disc the the Album "Photothèque-01 doesn't mount".
• with the external disc connected, the catalog appears quickly but I must wait minutes to obtain the thumbnails ???

I don't know if something is wrong in my settings or if it's an issue of the program.
Thanks for the help.
Chears.
Philippe

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[Simon Cropper-4]

Hi Philippe,

I can read the messages correctly as I only read English but what stood out for me was characters and spaces in the album names.

In Screenshot-03 note the leading space for "photos a classer". It differs to "Phototheque-01".

You also use characters with diacritic marks. It is hard sometimes to verify whether all programs, databases, OS  understand and accept these characters.

Personally I don't use "-" either. I have had problems in the past with various programs not working properly because '-" was in path. Substitute "_" if a spacer is required.

This may not be the issue but it is worth a try to sanitise your names. Only use a-z A-Z 0-9 for paths and album names. See if this works. No "~!@$%^&*(){}?<>", spaces or characters with diacritic marks.

Best of luck.

Cheers Simon

On 20/02/16 03:14, [hidden email] wrote:

Hi team,
I have a problem using removable discs with Digikam 4.13.0 on Maxc OS X. 10 (Yosemite).
In the Preferences I set the place of the Digikam Data Base on the hard disk of my computer (Screenshot  01).
Then I added as Local Collection  an Album located on my computer in the Folder "Pictures " and called "Photos à Classer "
Then I added a new collection (called Photothèque 01) located on a removable (external) hard disc. At this moment appeared the message shown in the screenshot 02 (very hard to understand the meaning ???)
I clicked OK twice to close the Collections window of the Preferences.
All the Album of the removable media was imported very well.(Screenshot 03)
Then I quit Digikam and disconnect the removable disc
Now when I re-open Digikam :

• with the external disc disconnected :
•  The Album " Photothèque 01" of the removable média doesn't appear (Screenshot-04) and in the Preferences I can see that the Collection "Photothèque" has moved in the Local Collection.(Screenshot 04)
  
• if I connect at this moment the external disc the the Album "Photothèque-01 doesn't mount".
• with the external disc connected, the catalog appears quickly but I must wait minutes to obtain the thumbnails ???

I don't know if something is wrong in my settings or if it's an issue of the program.
Thanks for the help.
Chears.
Philippe

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[Lutz Epperlein-2]

Hi Philippe,

As Simon already stated it could be a problem with the names of the
volumes. What kind of file system does the remove media has? That could
be the cause of the trouble, so try to use simple naming and avoid any
diacritic characters.
And I see your collection " Photos à Classer" has a space character in
front. I would avoid that too.

Regards
Lutz

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Lutz Epperlein
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