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[YGPC]

Hi
Have just installed Digikam 5 on Ubuntu, my photo folder in on a separate drive (within the computer, not external USB etc) and Digikam can't "see" the other drive, just only sees the system drive so can't import. Any chance of a suggestion, if so, greatly appreciated
Have tried ALL found suggestions, nothing works for me!
Gregory

Le 14/03/2017 à 23:05, YGPC a écrit :
> Hi
> Have just installed Digikam 5 on Ubuntu, my photo folder in on a
> separate drive (within the computer, not external USB etc) and Digikam
> can't "see" the other drive, just only sees the system drive so can't
> import. Any chance of a suggestion, if so, greatly appreciated
> Have tried ALL found suggestions, nothing works for me!
> Gregory
>
is your separate disk mounted somewhere?

jdd

[YGPC]

Hi.

Thanks for reply, the computer has a SSD system drive, plus four 5TB hard drives which has all my data etc spread over them, All drives are mounted

Gregory

On 15/03/17 11:07, jdd wrote:

Le 14/03/2017 à 23:05, YGPC a écrit :

Hi
Have just installed Digikam 5 on Ubuntu, my photo folder in on a
separate drive (within the computer, not external USB etc) and Digikam
can't "see" the other drive, just only sees the system drive so can't
import. Any chance of a suggestion, if so, greatly appreciated
Have tried ALL found suggestions, nothing works for me!
Gregory

is your separate disk mounted somewhere?

jdd

Le 14/03/2017 à 23:23, YGPC a écrit :
> Hi.
>
> Thanks for reply, the computer has a SSD system drive, plus four 5TB
> hard drives which has all my data etc spread over them, All drives are
> mounted

so I don't see why you couldn't see the other disks.

when looking for new collection, you have various ways to navigate the
file system and up to / so you should be able to find the other disks

an alternative way, more general (ie works outside digikam) is to link
the mount point in your home

I have, for example :

lrwxrwxrwx 1 jdd users 12 5 janv.  2016 data-ssd480 -> /data-ssd480
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jdd users 14  1 nov.  18:52 jdd-usb -> /run/media/jdd


jdd

[Andreas T. Ege]

Hello,

On 14.03.2017 22:05, YGPC wrote:
> Hi
> Have just installed Digikam 5 on Ubuntu, my photo folder in on a
> separate drive (within the computer, not external USB etc) and Digikam
> can't "see" the other drive, just only sees the system drive so can't
> import. Any chance of a suggestion, if so, greatly appreciated
> Have tried ALL found suggestions, nothing works for me!
> Gregory
>
maybe some more information about the hard drive(s), system setup and
what "ALL found suggestions" that are not working are?

Besides the suggested mount possibility I would think about permissions
as a first step. You might have tried that, if running digikam as root
does find the drive/ folders it would suggest a permission problem.
Another try is to right click on one of the images in your folder and
"open with" digikam. At least you'd then know whether digikam can
actually "see" the images or not.


--
Andreas Ege

[YGPC]

Hi

I do have all the required permissions, like can read and write to all drives, so can't be that. I did in between writing back and forth get Digikam to find the Photos folder, click to import and all that was imported was the main folder, "Photos" no sub folders and it has duplicated the Photos folder about 40 times, each folder called photos being a sub folder of the previous!

Have spent hours on this and about ready to just delete all and everything associated with DigiKam and look for something that works, unless you can convince me otherwise. I see I am not alone with this same problem

Gregory

On 15/03/17 11:48, Andreas T. Ege wrote:

Hello,

On 14.03.2017 22:05, YGPC wrote:

Hi
Have just installed Digikam 5 on Ubuntu, my photo folder in on a
separate drive (within the computer, not external USB etc) and Digikam
can't "see" the other drive, just only sees the system drive so can't
import. Any chance of a suggestion, if so, greatly appreciated
Have tried ALL found suggestions, nothing works for me!
Gregory

maybe some more information about the hard drive(s), system setup and
what "ALL found suggestions" that are not working are?

Besides the suggested mount possibility I would think about permissions
as a first step. You might have tried that, if running digikam as root
does find the drive/ folders it would suggest a permission problem.
Another try is to right click on one of the images in your folder and
"open with" digikam. At least you'd then know whether digikam can
actually "see" the images or not.

[YGPC]

Sent on:  15 March 2017, at 12:16 pm

Hello again Andrea

I have removed all and everything to do with Digikam, I guess one gets what you pay for in this world, pay nothing, get nothing. Digikam would have to be biggest piece of rubbish that has been on my computer. Not to worry, thanks for your efforts

On 15/03/17 11:48, Andreas T. Ege wrote:

Hello,

On 14.03.2017 22:05, YGPC wrote:

Hi
Have just installed Digikam 5 on Ubuntu, my photo folder in on a
separate drive (within the computer, not external USB etc) and Digikam
can't "see" the other drive, just only sees the system drive so can't
import. Any chance of a suggestion, if so, greatly appreciated
Have tried ALL found suggestions, nothing works for me!
Gregory

maybe some more information about the hard drive(s), system setup and
what "ALL found suggestions" that are not working are?

Besides the suggested mount possibility I would think about permissions
as a first step. You might have tried that, if running digikam as root
does find the drive/ folders it would suggest a permission problem.
Another try is to right click on one of the images in your folder and
"open with" digikam. At least you'd then know whether digikam can
actually "see" the images or not.

[Andrew Goodbody]

OK, this sounds like you are trying to do the wrong thing. For photos on
the computer, you add that location as a 'Collection' to digiKam, you do
not 'Import' them. Importing will make a copy of the images and is used
to bring in photos from an external source eg camera or flash card etc.

Andrew

On 14/03/17 22:58, YGPC wrote:

> Hi
>
> I do have all the required permissions, like can read and write to all
> drives, so can't be that. I did in between writing back and forth get
> Digikam to find the Photos folder, click to import and all that was
> imported was the main folder, "Photos" no sub folders and it has
> duplicated the Photos folder about 40 times, each folder called photos
> being a sub folder of the previous!
>
> Have spent hours on this and about ready to just delete all and
> everything associated with DigiKam and look for something that works,
> unless you can convince me otherwise. I see I am not alone with this
> same problem
>
> Gregory
>
>
>
> On 15/03/17 11:48, Andreas T. Ege wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On 14.03.2017 22:05, YGPC wrote:
>>> Hi
>>> Have just installed Digikam 5 on Ubuntu, my photo folder in on a
>>> separate drive (within the computer, not external USB etc) and Digikam
>>> can't "see" the other drive, just only sees the system drive so can't
>>> import. Any chance of a suggestion, if so, greatly appreciated
>>> Have tried ALL found suggestions, nothing works for me!
>>> Gregory
>>>
>> maybe some more information about the hard drive(s), system setup and
>> what "ALL found suggestions" that are not working are?
>>
>> Besides the suggested mount possibility I would think about permissions
>> as a first step. You might have tried that, if running digikam as root
>> does find the drive/ folders it would suggest a permission problem.
>> Another try is to right click on one of the images in your folder and
>> "open with" digikam. At least you'd then know whether digikam can
>> actually "see" the images or not.
>>
>>
>

[YGPC]

Sent on:  15 March 2017, at 01:16 pm

Hi Andrew

I did use the "Collection" way but all I go was the 'head" folder so to speak, none of the sub-folders or individual photo/image files, any suggestions on why this happened

Gregory

On 15/03/17 12:26, Andrew Goodbody wrote:

OK, this sounds like you are trying to do the wrong thing. For photos on the computer, you add that location as a 'Collection' to digiKam, you do not 'Import' them. Importing will make a copy of the images and is used to bring in photos from an external source eg camera or flash card etc.

Andrew

On 14/03/17 22:58, YGPC wrote:

Hi

I do have all the required permissions, like can read and write to all
drives, so can't be that. I did in between writing back and forth get
Digikam to find the Photos folder, click to import and all that was
imported was the main folder, "Photos" no sub folders and it has
duplicated the Photos folder about 40 times, each folder called photos
being a sub folder of the previous!

Have spent hours on this and about ready to just delete all and
everything associated with DigiKam and look for something that works,
unless you can convince me otherwise. I see I am not alone with this
same problem

Gregory



On 15/03/17 11:48, Andreas T. Ege wrote:

Hello,

On 14.03.2017 22:05, YGPC wrote:

Hi
Have just installed Digikam 5 on Ubuntu, my photo folder in on a
separate drive (within the computer, not external USB etc) and Digikam
can't "see" the other drive, just only sees the system drive so can't
import. Any chance of a suggestion, if so, greatly appreciated
Have tried ALL found suggestions, nothing works for me!
Gregory

maybe some more information about the hard drive(s), system setup and
what "ALL found suggestions" that are not working are?

Besides the suggested mount possibility I would think about permissions
as a first step. You might have tried that, if running digikam as root
does find the drive/ folders it would suggest a permission problem.
Another try is to right click on one of the images in your folder and
"open with" digikam. At least you'd then know whether digikam can
actually "see" the images or not.

Le 15/03/2017 à 01:16, YGPC a écrit :
> Sent on:  15 March 2017, at 01:16 pm
>
> Hi Andrew
>
> I diduse the "Collection" way but all I go was the 'head" folder so to
> speak, none of the sub-folders or individual photo/image files, any
> suggestions on why this happened

I have lot of photos on an external usb disk (5To) and it works, as
expected for subfolders

but did you wait a bit after selecting the collection? scan is done and
thumbnails are created, that is pretty long the first time

I use digikam 5.5.0 (appimage)

jdd

[YGPC]

Sent on:  15 March 2017, at 09:03 pm

Hi

Prior to receiving your most recent email, I have studied more and this is the result:

1. I managed to access my image folder on hard drive 01 (where the images/photos are). System SSD is 00
2. However, I noticed there were TWO albums names "Photos" but the top one was empty, so I moved all the sub-folders in the bottom Photos to the top Photo's album
3. I then shut down Digikam
   
4. Then I checked the system drive and found; /home/ygpc/mnt/e196d759-b2c0-4cbb-9ac8-85f27190139a/Photos was empty, so I deleted it
5. The deletion was it appeared, to be a mistake because when I restarted Digikam, it asked for a folder for images (words to that effect) so I closed down Digikam, copied the Photos folder back to /home/ygpc/mnt/e196d759-b2c0-4cbb-9ac8-85f27190139a/photos, restarted Digikam and I noticed, once again, two data folders
6. I then went to Settings etc and this time removed the data folder of /home/ygpc/mnt/e196d759-b2c0-4cbb-9ac8-85f27190139a/folders, closed down and restarted Digikam and now have the one Photo's folder

This all seems very cumbersome etc., have I got it right or not

One thing I noticed, I added another sub-folder with image files to the hard drive 01 Photos folder but Digikam does not update this, even though I have this option to update on start up

Look forward to your further reply, many thanks (I also have version 5.5.0)

On 15/03/17 20:41, jdd wrote:

Le 15/03/2017 à 01:16, YGPC a écrit :

Sent on:  15 March 2017, at 01:16 pm

Hi Andrew

I diduse the "Collection" way but all I go was the 'head" folder so to
speak, none of the sub-folders or individual photo/image files, any
suggestions on why this happened

I have lot of photos on an external usb disk (5To) and it works, as expected for subfolders

but did you wait a bit after selecting the collection? scan is done and thumbnails are created, that is pretty long the first time

I use digikam 5.5.0 (appimage)

jdd

Le 15/03/2017 à 09:03, YGPC a écrit :

>  1. I managed to access my image folder on hard drive 01 (where the
>     images/photos are). System SSD is 00

no problem

>  2. However, I noticed there were TWO albums names "Photos" but the top
>     one was empty, so I moved all the sub-folders in the bottom Photos
>     to the top Photo's album

I don't understand why you do all this. First, did you notice it's you
that gives the collection name?

My collections are sorted by date

http://dodin.org/owncloud/index.php/s/Z02stWojWijIkR8

http://dodin.org/owncloud/index.php/s/0K0Oj2P3H3ITeYE

and as my archives are also sorted by year, I have one collection for
each year

it's recommended to have photos  only in subfolder, that is do not have
in the same folder both images and folders, but I don't think it to be
mandatory

can you show screen copy of your setup? - you may use any cloud or
http://cjoint.com

jdd