Network Shares inaccessible (to digikam) after transition to digikam v5.1 (schema v.8)

[Johannes Graumann-2]

Hello,

After I managed to upgrade on my debian stable/testing system from digikam 4.*
to 5.1 (see an earlier post), I now have a new issue: the path definition of my
network drive stored albums has NOT changed during the database migration,
however digikam 5.1 is unable to access the images stored on the network -
when clicking on the thumbnail, the real image is NOT loaded and when trying
to create a new sub-album/directory in the left album pane (where the network
stored albums show up just fine), I get a complaint that "file://<path to
network share missing here>/<parent of the dir to create>" does not exist.

When looking at the corresponding AlbumRoots table using mysql-workbench, I
get this: https://ibin.co/2wTxwWM8Pitj.png

What's going wrong and how to fix it?

Sincerely, Joh

[Gilles Caulier-4]

The encoding path to root collection is badly encoded. In fact this is due certainly to port to pure Qt5 implementation, previous one use KUrl instead Qt5::QUrl.

Note : this is another point to prohibit the KDE API and to always promote Qt API instead everywhere. This kind of dysfunction are unacceptable for an application as digiKam. As now the 800.000 lines of code drop 90% of KDE API, the future will be more stable.

The solution to your problem is to fix the encoding path of root collection in DB. Look in Setup collection dialog if paths are show properly.

Gilles Caulier

2016-09-27 7:01 GMT+02:00 <[hidden email]>:

Hello,

After I managed to upgrade on my debian stable/testing system from digikam 4.*
to 5.1 (see an earlier post), I now have a new issue: the path definition of my
network drive stored albums has NOT changed during the database migration,
however digikam 5.1 is unable to access the images stored on the network -
when clicking on the thumbnail, the real image is NOT loaded and when trying
to create a new sub-album/directory in the left album pane (where the network
stored albums show up just fine), I get a complaint that "file://<path to
network share missing here>/<parent of the dir to create>" does not exist.

When looking at the corresponding AlbumRoots table using mysql-workbench, I
get this: https://ibin.co/2wTxwWM8Pitj.png

What's going wrong and how to fix it?

Sincerely, Joh

[Johannes Graumann-2]

Indeed.. Fixing the paths to using proper "/" resolves my issues.

 

Thank you Sincerely, Joh

 

2016-09-27 07:26:27 +0200 <[hidden email]>

> The encoding path to root collection is badly encoded. In fact this is due

> certainly to port to pure Qt5 implementation, previous one use KUrl instead

> Qt5::QUrl.

>

> Note : this is another point to prohibit the KDE API and to always promote

> Qt API instead everywhere. This kind of dysfunction are unacceptable for an

> application as digiKam. As now the 800.000 lines of code drop 90% of KDE

> API, the future will be more stable.

>

> The solution to your problem is to fix the encoding path of root collection

> in DB. Look in Setup collection dialog if paths are show properly.

>

> Gilles Caulier

>

> 2016-09-27 7:01 GMT+02:00 <[hidden email]>:

> > Hello,

> >

> > After I managed to upgrade on my debian stable/testing system from digikam

> > 4.*

> > to 5.1 (see an earlier post), I now have a new issue: the path definition

> > of my

> > network drive stored albums has NOT changed during the database migration,

> > however digikam 5.1 is unable to access the images stored on the network -

> > when clicking on the thumbnail, the real image is NOT loaded and when

> > trying

> > to create a new sub-album/directory in the left album pane (where the

> > network

> > stored albums show up just fine), I get a complaint that "file://<pathto

> > network share missing here>/<parent of the dir to create>" does not exist.

> >

> > When looking at the corresponding AlbumRoots table using mysql-workbench,

> > I

> > get this: https://ibin.co/2wTxwWM8Pitj.png

> >

> > What's going wrong and how to fix it?

> >

> > Sincerely, Joh