Problem with starting digiKam 5.4.0

[Markwart Lindenthal]

Happy Easter!

Please excuse my lousy English – I am over 70, that means school English
has gone since mor than half a century.

I liked to work with digiKam – I should better say: digiKam worked for
me for some years, with about 50 000 pictures. But it was interrupted
long time ago.

When starting it now, it asks for Drive A:, put a disk in it and close.
That's all, it does not run.

Drive A: never had been working in my PC. But I have an external
3½"-drive A: with cable and USB2. Nevertheless digiKam is not ready to
go, even after de- and newly re-installation.

Is there anyone able to help me getting started?

It would be a fine easter-gift for me.

Thanks and greetings from Markwart Lindenthal.

[Markwart Lindenthal]

Please excuse my lousy English – I am over 70, that means school English
has gone since more than half a century.

I liked to work with digiKam – I should better say: digiKam worked for
me for some years, with about 50 000 pictures. But it was interrupted
long time ago.

When starting it now, it asks for Drive A:, put a disk in it and close.
That's all, it does not run.

Drive A: never had been working in my PC. But I have an external
3½"-drive A: with cable and USB2. Nevertheless digiKam is not ready to
go, even after de- and newly re-installation.

Is there anyone able to help me getting started?

It would be a fine after-easter-gift for me.

Thanks and greetings from Markwart Lindenthal.

[Gilles Caulier-4]

Somebody has already reported this problem few week ago. I think it's relevant of KF5::Solid interface from KDE which handle devices.

Try to use new 5.5.0 available at usual download page or the pre-release installer 5.6.0 when Solid have been updated :

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzeiVr-byqt5Y0tIRWVWelRJenM

Gilles Caulier

2017-04-20 17:50 GMT+02:00 Markwart Lindenthal <[hidden email]>:

Please excuse my lousy English – I am over 70, that means school English
has gone since more than half a century.

I liked to work with digiKam – I should better say: digiKam worked for
me for some years, with about 50 000 pictures. But it was interrupted
long time ago.

When starting it now, it asks for Drive A:, put a disk in it and close.
That's all, it does not run.

Drive A: never had been working in my PC. But I have an external
3½"-drive A: with cable and USB2. Nevertheless digiKam is not ready to
go, even after de- and newly re-installation.

Is there anyone able to help me getting started?

It would be a fine after-easter-gift for me.

Thanks and greetings from Markwart Lindenthal.

[Markwart Lindenthal]

Dear Gilles Caulier!
Many thanks for your very quick response.
But unluckyly both new installations (at first the v 5.6.0 of your link, afterwards v 5.5.0 via "Chip") failed, the failure-message is "Drive A: not found" occurs even now.

How could I try to update "Solid"? Might this bring the solution?

Another question is: where does digikam store its databases? are they in folder .../digikam/database? I would like to save digiKams datafiles and afterwards de-install the whole program and sweep off all the programm folders, but would not like to loose the data of nearly 50000 pictures.

Could a complete new installation repair my digiKam?

Best regards! Markwart Lindenthal.

Am 2017-04-20 um 17:56 schrieb Gilles Caulier:

Somebody has already reported this problem few week ago. I think it's relevant of KF5::Solid interface from KDE which handle devices.

Try to use new 5.5.0 available at usual download page or the pre-release installer 5.6.0 when Solid have been updated :

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzeiVr-byqt5Y0tIRWVWelRJenM

Gilles Caulier

2017-04-20 17:50 GMT+02:00 Markwart Lindenthal <[hidden email]>:

Please excuse my ...

[Mica Semrick]

We were seeing this problem in GTK3 on windows systems with the RawTherapee application as well. The solution in that case was to disable the A: drive in your computer's BIOS/EFI.

-m

On April 20, 2017 1:25:21 PM PDT, Markwart Lindenthal <[hidden email]> wrote:

Dear Gilles Caulier!
Many thanks for your very quick response.
But unluckyly both new installations (at first the v 5.6.0 of your link, afterwards v 5.5.0 via "Chip") failed, the failure-message is "Drive A: not found" occurs even now.

How could I try to update "Solid"? Might this bring the solution?

Another question is: where does digikam store its databases? are they in folder .../digikam/database? I would like to save digiKams datafiles and afterwards de-install the whole program and sweep off all the programm folders, but would not like to loose the data of nearly 50000 pictures.

Could a complete new installation repair my digiKam?

Best regards! Markwart Lindenthal.

Am 2017-04-20 um 17:56 schrieb Gilles Caulier:

Somebody has already reported this problem few week ago. I think it's relevant of KF5::Solid interface from KDE which handle devices.

Try to use new 5.5.0 available at usual download page or the pre-release installer 5.6.0 when Solid have been updated :

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzeiVr-byqt5Y0tIRWVWelRJenM

Gilles Caulier

2017-04-20 17:50 GMT+02:00 Markwart Lindenthal <[hidden email]>:

Please excuse my ...

[Gilles Caulier-4]

2017-04-20 22:25 GMT+02:00 Markwart Lindenthal <[hidden email]>:

Dear Gilles Caulier!
Many thanks for your very quick response.
But unluckyly both new installations (at first the v 5.6.0 of your link, afterwards v 5.5.0 via "Chip") failed, the failure-message is "Drive A: not found" occurs even now.

How could I try to update "Solid"? Might this bring the solution?

You cannot. It's a software component that it's included in DK Windows bundle. I compile myself all dependencies for DK. Solid is one of the huge list.

 

Another question is: where does digikam store its databases?

Where you said to DK to store it. Look in DK/setup/database. There is a path to configure it.

In this folder you will found  .db files which are sqlite database : one for the image proerties, one for thumbnaisl, and one for face tags.

Gilles Caulier

[Gilles Caulier-4]

This is certainly the best way to fix the A: problem. After all A: drive is definitively obsolete now (:=)))...

Gilles Caulier

2017-04-20 23:03 GMT+02:00 Mica Semrick <[hidden email]>:

We were seeing this problem in GTK3 on windows systems with the RawTherapee application as well. The solution in that case was to disable the A: drive in your computer's BIOS/EFI.

-m

On April 20, 2017 1:25:21 PM PDT, Markwart Lindenthal <[hidden email]> wrote:

Dear Gilles Caulier!
Many thanks for your very quick response.
But unluckyly both new installations (at first the v 5.6.0 of your link, afterwards v 5.5.0 via "Chip") failed, the failure-message is "Drive A: not found" occurs even now.

How could I try to update "Solid"? Might this bring the solution?

Another question is: where does digikam store its databases? are they in folder .../digikam/database? I would like to save digiKams datafiles and afterwards de-install the whole program and sweep off all the programm folders, but would not like to loose the data of nearly 50000 pictures.

Could a complete new installation repair my digiKam?

Best regards! Markwart Lindenthal.

Am 2017-04-20 um 17:56 schrieb Gilles Caulier:

Somebody has already reported this problem few week ago. I think it's relevant of KF5::Solid interface from KDE which handle devices.

Try to use new 5.5.0 available at usual download page or the pre-release installer 5.6.0 when Solid have been updated :

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzeiVr-byqt5Y0tIRWVWelRJenM

Gilles Caulier

2017-04-20 17:50 GMT+02:00 Markwart Lindenthal <[hidden email]>:

Please excuse my ...