setup problems - how to re-run set-up

[Myles Parker-2]

    Hello there, just joined and first post. I have previously used Digikam on my old 32 bit system just to download photos from my camera to a folder, which is all I need it for at the moment.

    Just over a month ago I got a brand new 64bit system with an SSD and 2 x 2Tb HDD, which now runs Mageia #3 (primary - new install) and Windows 7 (occasionally).

    Okay, last night I tried to download photos from my camera - s first-time use of Digikam and the set-up routine runs and I go through that and then I make a fatal mistake - I pointed it to the usual folder path that I used to download to - but here's where the fun begins - the Pictures folder on my Home drive (that I pointed Digikam to) only contains a symlink to the real folders on one of the HDD's! (The symlink is so as not towear out the SSD by writing to it too often). I couldn't do anything about it to fix it up so I un-installed Digikam and re-installed it hoping to go through the set-up routine again - nope, didn't run! When I selected to download my photos a got a dialogue box that had "My Albums"listed in the top part of the screen and a box at the bottom that you could name a new album and press the "New Album" button. Well I could have sat there all night pressing the "New Album" button because it didn't do anything! Also during these problems I got another dialogue box that said that Digikam couldn't find my album and it had 2 options with Raio butons, 1 option saying that the album was on an external drive that wasn't always mounted and the other option was to "fix the problem by re-running the set-up routine"! (Sorry I didn't get any screen dumps of those problems)  I have un-installed/re-installed Digikam a dozen times all to no avail. Somehow my system/Digikam somehow knows (a left-over setting?) that it has already run the set-up routine and I only get one go at it!  After the last re-install late last night after I tried to select my photos and download them, I got a completely different screen a "Collections Settings". (see attached screen dump).

So what is going on?? And how can I re-run the set-up routine again. I read (skimmed) through the user manual to no avail.

    Any assistance greatly appreciated.

    Myles.

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Le 03/08/2013 07:04, Myles Parker a écrit :

> So what is going on?? And how can I re-run the set-up routine again. I
> read (skimmed) through the user manual to no avail.

digikam is kde app, so the config is somewhere in your ~/.kde4 folder

but why don't you simply go to the config/config digikam menu?

jdd


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[Myles Parker-2]

    jdd,
        I forgot to mention that I had deleted - what I thought was all - Digikam-related folders/files under .kde/share/apps, but I just checked and noticed that there is some Digikam stuff in .kde/share/config, so maybe that was it.

   I had a look in Configuration, but didn't t really see anything that matched up with what I was looking for and I didn't want to fiddle with things that I didn't know anything about. I have just actioned the "Local Collection" > "Add Collection" button on the screen I had from last night and selected my Photos folder on the HDD and Digikam scanned the folders and sub-folders and now the folder tree appears under the My Albums panel in Digikam. I just successfully downloaded my selected photos into my designated folder.

    So all good!

    Thankyou for your very rapid reply.  

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Le 03/08/2013 07:04, Myles Parker a écrit :

> So what is going on?? And how can I re-run the set-up routine again. I
> read (skimmed) through the user manual to no avail.

digikam is kde app, so the config is somewhere in your ~/.kde4 folder

but why don't you simply go to the config/config digikam menu?

jdd


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