[Digikam-users] Can't Create Album on WinXP

[Gary Pajer]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Patrick Spendrin <ps_ml at gmx.de> wrote:
> Gary Pajer schrieb:
>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Patrick Spendrin <ps_ml at gmx.de> wrote:
>>> Gary Pajer schrieb:
>>>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Patrick Spendrin <ps_ml at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>>> Gary Pajer schrieb:
>>>>>> Version 0.10.0-beta6 (rev.: 887796)  (svn, built myself)
>>> Can you please always add your compiler here ;-)!!!!
>>> The behaviour might differ between mingw and msvc.
>>
>> mingw
>>
>>
>>>>>> I have folders on an external USB drive that I want to add as albums.
>>>>>> If I choose Album>New... and fill in the dialog box, click ok, digiKam
>>>>>> returns with an error:  "Failed to create directory"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is this a bug, a problem with my system, problem with my build, or am
>>>>>> I doing something wrong?
>>>>> I couldn't see this, but on the other hand I tried to add a new external
>>>>> repository and this crashed digikam (I had no time to look after that).
>>>>> So very likely it is a bug.
>>>> By "add a new external repository" do you mean add an album of images
>>>> that live on an external drive?  If not, what is an external
>>>> repository?
>>>>
>>>> -g
>>> Settings->Configure Digikam->Collections->Collections on
>>> Removable...->Add Collection
>>> then choosing a folder -> crash
>>>
>>> about the klauncher stuff: please kill all KDE applications (including
>>> dbus-daemon), run 'update-mime-database %KDEROOT%\share\mime' (replace
>>> KDEROOT) from your kderoot directory, then run 'kbuildsycoca4
>>> --noincremental'. Very likely then you can experience the same crash as
>>> I do.
>>
>> Progress:  I did as you suggest, and the klauncher stuff is gone.
>>
>> Settings>Configure digiKam>Removable Media>
>> The dialog open up, and a file tree is displayed.  But it's root is
>> c:\, and I can't figure out how to find my external USB drive.
>> Windows has assigned it a drive letter (H:) which I can see in Windows
>> Explorer.
>>
>> Changing the "tab" selection on the left:
>> "Home" and "Root" both show a tree rooted at c:\
>> "Network" and "Trash" are blank
>>
>> (I continue to feel that I'm missing something obvious.  If so, I apologize.)
> What I wrote before is non-sense and is only applicaple to KDE file dialogs.
> At the bottom you should be able to set your path as you wish.

Aha.  Yes.

Now I have news, but I'm not sure if it's good or bad:  :)
I was able to add a collection from my USB drive without any crash.
Everything seems to be working smoothly as advertised.

anything I can do to help track down your crash?

-gary


>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>> gary
> Patrick
>>
>>
>>
>>> regards,
>>> Patrick
>>>
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