usb collection

Hello,

I have many photo collections on a 4Tb external usb drive.

This one is only mounted when necessary.

1) unlike Dolphin, Digikam is not able to mount the drive "on demand" I
have first to open any folder in dolphin, then start digikam.

2) Digikam starts scanning all the disk collection automatically, even
when there is no change. This takes around *one hour*!

is there a way to prevent digikam from scanning the disk?

thanks
jdd
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[Peter Mc Donough]

Am 15.10.2014 um 13:05 schrieb jdd:
> Hello,
>
> I have many photo collections on a 4Tb external usb drive.
>
> This one is only mounted when necessary.


Did you set these collections in Setup/Collections on removable drives?

I use the German version, here it can be set to:
"Sammlungen auf Wechseldatenträgern"

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Le 15/10/2014 13:55, Peter Mc Donough a écrit :

> Did you set these collections in Setup/Collections on removable drives?

yes.. and no

yes I tried to do so, adding them from this menu, but in the end digikam
stored them as local collections

they are in /media/jdd (link to /var/run/media/jdd - opensuse 13.1)

digikam 3.5.0

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[Peter Mc Donough]

Am 15.10.2014 um 14:45 schrieb jdd:
> Le 15/10/2014 13:55, Peter Mc Donough a écrit :
> ...
> yes.. and no
>
> yes I tried to do so, adding them from this menu, but in the end digikam
> stored them as local collections
>
> they are in /media/jdd (link to /var/run/media/jdd - opensuse 13.1)
> digikam 3.5.0

An upgrade to digikam 4.4.0  might help.

I use the additional repositories:

URL: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Current/openSUSE_13.1/

URL:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/KDE_Current_openSUSE_13.1/

with openSuse 13.1 64bit

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[Antonio Trincone]

I believe that if you tell to your system about auto-mounting the drive, next time it will be sufficient to get it ON and then start digikam with all things working. Please pay attention, my database is not running on the usb drive but in my home directory. That's the way my system works.

2014-10-15 13:05 GMT+02:00 jdd <[hidden email]>:

Hello,

I have many photo collections on a 4Tb external usb drive.

This one is only mounted when necessary.

1) unlike Dolphin, Digikam is not able to mount the drive "on demand" I have first to open any folder in dolphin, then start digikam.

2) Digikam starts scanning all the disk collection automatically, even when there is no change. This takes around *one hour*!

is there a way to prevent digikam from scanning the disk?

thanks
jdd
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Le 15/10/2014 15:35, Antonio Trincone a écrit :
> I believe that if you tell to your system about auto-mounting the drive,
> next time it will be sufficient to get it ON and then start digikam with
> all things working. Please pay attention, my database is not running on
> the usb drive but in my home directory. That's the way my system works.

It's exactly what I do

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Le 15/10/2014 14:57, Peter Mc Donough a écrit :

> An upgrade to digikam 4.4.0  might help.

I'm reluctant to install too recent kde, I killed my install no so long
ago like this :-(

specially if I'm not sure it will fix the problem :-(

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[Peter Mc Donough]

Am 15.10.2014 um 18:30 schrieb jdd:
> Le 15/10/2014 14:57, Peter Mc Donough a écrit :
>
>> An upgrade to digikam 4.4.0  might help.
>
> I'm reluctant to install too recent kde, I killed my install no so long
> ago like this :-(

I understand that.
I had a problem with digikam 3.5 and upgraded which brought an update of
kde (now) to 4.14.2. It works on my computer without causing any trouble.
Negative may be the frequent kde updates (today around 130). It is
obviously work in progress.
You also get rid of nepomuk, it is replaced by baloo, which can easily
be switched of;-)

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