<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span class="tab"> 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.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span class="tab"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span class="tab"> 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). <br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span class="tab"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span class="tab"> </span><span class="tab">Okay, last night I tried to download photos from my camera </span><span class="tab">- 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 <span style="text-decoration: underline;">real</span> 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</span><span class="tab"><span class="tab"> "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) </span> 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).</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span class="tab"></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span class="tab">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.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span class="tab"></span></div><div
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span class="tab"> Any assistance greatly appreciated.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span class="tab"></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span class="tab"> Myles.<br></span></div></div></body></html>