<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Thank-you again, Giles, for taking time on a Sunday to help me. Unfortunately, the new version does not work either. Must be something on my machine (and on other’s who are experiencing similar problems). Does the following dialogue provide a clue with which somebody might be able guide me towards a resolution:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>“Could not start process. Unable to create io.slave”<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yet shortly afterwards, another dialogue shows “process complete”. I’m not sure which process this refers to but, it certainly does not result in my thumbnails re-appearing or in the kipi plug-ins becoming available again.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 06 Sep 2015, at 16:28, J Albrecht <<a href="mailto:heviiguy@gmail.com" class="">heviiguy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Merci, Giles :-)<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It’s downloading now. I’ll report back as to how it works…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 06 Sep 2015, at 11:46, Gilles Caulier <<a href="mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com" class="">caulier.gilles@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I just uploaded digiKam 4.13.0 PKG installer for Yosemite. Please try with this version :<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://download.kde.org/stable/digikam/digikam-4.13.0-Yosemite.pkg.mirrorlist" class="">http://download.kde.org/stable/digikam/digikam-4.13.0-Yosemite.pkg.mirrorlist</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Gilles Caulier</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">2015-09-05 14:41 GMT+02:00 J Albrecht <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:heviiguy@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">heviiguy@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class="">Missing thumbnails. AGAIN!! </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">After finally seeing my thumbnails (with no idea why it had finally happened) I thought that the problem miraculously solved itself. However, the thumbnails have once again disappeared. I’ve done nothing differently this time compared to the last when the thumbnails decided to grace me with their presence. In addition to the thumbnails being absent, none of the kipi plug-ins are available now (they were, the last time that the thumbnails were visible). These are extremely frustrating experiences! What can be done to solve this?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If somebody suggests “debugging”, please bear in mind that I’m a photographer, not a console-junkie. Apparently, I’m not the only one suffering from this. I’m sure that we’ll all appreciate the assistance.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 31 Aug 2015, at 21:03, Phil <<a href="mailto:philtuckey@free.fr" target="_blank" class="">philtuckey@free.fr</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important" class="">I am having a similar experience with 4.12 on Yosemite. Sometimes the thumbnails are displayed correctly and sometimes not at all, i.e. digikam thinks there are no images in any album. Sometimes it works ok when started by clicking on the alias in Applications and sometimes it works ok when running it from a terminal/shell. I don't think it has anything to do with a problem with the databases, at least not one that requires completely rebuilding them.</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" class=""><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" class=""><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important" class="">On 31/08/2015 15:09, J Albrecht wrote:</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 31 Aug 2015, at 14:02, Gilles Caulier <<a href="mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">caulier.gilles@gmail.com</a><br class=""><<a href="mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Start digiKam from a console, following instructions at "For hangs out<br class="">or dysfunctions" section :<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://www.digikam.org/contrib" target="_blank" class="">https://www.digikam.org/contrib</a><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">Merci again.<br class=""><br class="">Although the link provides no helpful “concise” directions on how to run<br class="">the tool with the appropriate debug space for simple users such as<br class="">myself (developers, please take note), I now have my thumbnails back.<br class="">But, I’ve no idea why.<br class=""><br class="">All I had done differently was activate (double click) the app from<br class="">within /opt/digikam/Applications/digiKam/ rather than from cmd ><br class="">Spacebar (Spotlight Search) as usual. When that worked I wanted to<br class="">create an Alias to put into the Applications directory. Then I<br class="">discovered that the existing file was already an alias referring to the<br class="">original in opt/…<br class=""><br class="">Was it merely a coincidence that after at least 6 attempts to flush the<br class="">databases, it finally “stuck” and the program again operates as designed?<br class=""><br class="">So, my thumbnails are back but I have no useful clues to provide to<br class="">anybody else who may happen to find themselves in a similar predicament.<br class="">Sorry :-(<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Digikam-users mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Digikam-users@kde.org" target="_blank" class="">Digikam-users@kde.org</a><br class=""><a href="https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users" target="_blank" class="">https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users</a><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" class=""><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important" class="">Digikam-users mailing list</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" class=""><a href="mailto:Digikam-users@kde.org" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank" class="">Digikam-users@kde.org</a><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" class=""><a href="https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank" class="">https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users</a></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">
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