beginner's question

[Errol Sapir]

I am new to Digikam, having used Picassa before. I am stuck on the first stage of using Digikan, that of "finding" and importing photos into Digikam. I have thousands of photos, dispersed all over my computer which has 3 hard drives. As I was a Windows user for many years a lot of these photos are on a NTFS drive, others are in an external hard drive and others are on CD's or DVD's.

On Picasa all I did was have the program "search" my computer and all my photos were "imported" to Picasa. How does one import photos into Digikam after installing Digikam in my Kubuntu KDE 4.1 program. The main problem seems to be importing photos that aren't on a Linux partition.

If this is a question that has been dealt with before, I apologize and if one points me in the right direction I'll try to figure it out.

Errol

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[Marcel Wiesweg]

> I am new to Digikam, having used Picassa before. I am stuck on the first
> stage of using Digikan, that of "finding" and importing photos into
> Digikam. I have thousands of photos, dispersed all over my computer
> which has 3 hard drives. As I was a Windows user for many years a lot of
> these photos are on a NTFS drive, others are in an external hard drive
> and others are on CD's or DVD's.
>
> On Picasa all I did was have the program "search" my computer and all my
> photos were "imported" to Picasa. How does one import photos into
> Digikam after installing Digikam in my Kubuntu KDE 4.1 program. The main
> problem seems to be importing photos that aren't on a Linux partition.
>
> If this is a question that has been dealt with before, I apologize and
> if one points me in the right direction I'll try to figure it out.

You have a valid question. First part of your answer is that you want to use
digikam 0.10 for KDE4 when it is released, or try the current 0.10.0-beta7.
We do not have any functionality to search your harddisk, you have to add the
directories of your photos manually. Any hard disk partition, USB drive and
removable media (*) should work. If you encounter problems, report it via
bugs.kde.org.

(*) For CDs and DVDs it is the best solution to give them a unique label when
you create them in your burning application.

Marcel


>
> Errol


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[Gerhard Kulzer-3]

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> Digikam after installing Digikam in my Kubuntu KDE 4.1 program. The main
> problem seems to be importing photos that aren't on a Linux partition.

Normally Kubuntu should be able to mount a NTFS drive at least in read-only
mode. You may have to pay attention to the right codepage or iocharset setup
when you put the NTFS drive into your /etc/fstab:
normally this should be sufficient:
mount -t ntfs -o ro,umask=022,users /dev/sdX /mnt/whatever

"dmesg" will give you feedback.

Gerhard
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[Errol Sapir]

Gerhard Hi

Thanks for your reply. My problem is definitely with understanding Digikam. I'll explain. All my hard drives are mounted and I can see the folders and photos on these drives. My problem is having Digikam "see" them. When going to import all Digikam see are the Linux folders.  That's where I'm stuck, how to get Digikam to see and import folders from a NTFS drive.

Errol

Gerhard Kulzer wrote:

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Digikam after installing Digikam in my Kubuntu KDE 4.1 program. The main
problem seems to be importing photos that aren't on a Linux partition.
    

Normally Kubuntu should be able to mount a NTFS drive at least in read-only 
mode. You may have to pay attention to the right codepage or iocharset setup 
when you put the NTFS drive into your /etc/fstab:
normally this should be sufficient:
mount -t ntfs -o ro,umask=022,users /dev/sdX /mnt/whatever

"dmesg" will give you feedback.

Gerhard
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