Using Network filestore in windows

[Ian McCarthy-2]

  I'm sure I've read a comment somewhere about using network filestore
in windows, but I can't find it, and seem to remember that there is a
feature (problem).
I have Digikam Version 5.1.0 on a upto date Windows 7 system. One of my
picture library's is on another networked Windows 7 machine with a share
- S: or  \\Machine_2\\Pictures\Phone
My problem is that any new libraries which I place in S: are not seen by
Digikam, and other than removing the library and re introducing it I do
not know how to get Digikam to spot the new libraries.
Is it suppose to work and doesn't yet or is it never going to work?
Is there a way of getting Digikam to relook for new libraries.

As an aside this did work once of a day in version 4.
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Cheers Ian Mac

[Gilles Caulier-4]

2016-08-12 20:06 GMT+02:00 Ian McCarthy <[hidden email]>:

 I'm sure I've read a comment somewhere about using network filestore in windows, but I can't find it, and seem to remember that there is a feature (problem).
I have Digikam Version 5.1.0 on a upto date Windows 7 system. One of my picture library's is on another networked Windows 7 machine with a share - S: or  \\Machine_2\\Pictures\Phone
My problem is that any new libraries which I place in S: are not seen by Digikam, and other than removing the library and re introducing it I do not know how to get Digikam to spot the new libraries.

When you setup the shared drive S:, did you see the correct path in setup collection view ?

What do you see in debugview program when you setup S: ?

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/debugview.aspx

 

Is it suppose to work and doesn't yet or is it never going to work?
Is there a way of getting Digikam to relook for new libraries.

As an aside this did work once of a day in version 4.

The digiKam Qt5 port with 5.x release can introduce regression of course. 

 

Gilles Caulier