[digiKam-users] DK 7.4.0 Win64: not showing some network folders

[Maik Qualmann]

First, the Microsoft program DebugView should be used to see whether there are 
any relevant error messages. An environment variable must be set for this. You 
can find the description here:

https://www.digikam.org/contribute/

Then we can look at the DebugView log.
It is possible to refresh an album with CTRL + F5 without recalculating 
thumbnails. 

Maik

Am Dienstag, 11. Januar 2022, 03:36:04 CET schrieb Johan Kemnitz:
> Hi all,
> 
> Thanks for all the hard work on DK - awesome tool! The local thumb DB
> introduced with 7.4.0 is fantastic :)
> 
> Unfortunately having a few seemingly related issues. Setup: main collection
> hosted on Linux SMB server, also hosts MySQL databases in MariaDB. Win
> 10-64 "clients" (laptop, desktop, wife's laptop) access these but since
> 7.4.0 each are set to store thumbs DB locally.
> 
> Issues:
> 
> - since yesterday it will no longer show all folders in the NAS collection.
> Only ~half the folders are shown in the album tree. Tried "Scan for new
> items" and DB maintenance, no luck. Same result with different client PCs.
> 
> - refresh (F5) / add items takes a long time. It first re-generates
> thumbnails (even if they already exist, it seems), then looks for new
> items. So it can take several minutes for new files to appear.
> 
> - Browsing is generally slow. It still takes a while to load thumbs when
> opening an album. Flipping through images in preview is noticeably faster
> if there are fewer images in the album.
> 
> - I have "Monitor albums for changes" active as I like to occasionally edit
> externally. DK used to immediately recognize new files if I dragged them in
> from Explorer, but no longer. Refresh will find them, eventually.
> 
> I'm thinking of either removing / re-adding the NAS collection (will tags
> etc. be preserved?) and / or doing a clean re-install of DK. Thoughts?
> 
> Many many thanks!
> Johan