<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div>Problem not know. HDD time life depend of a lots of factor, as temperature for ex.</div><div><br></div><div>Where is located the database files. At the same place ?</div><div><br></div><div>Gilles Caulier</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2018-03-20 16:01 GMT+01:00 Derek Keats <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:derek@dkeats.com" target="_blank">derek@dkeats.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Folks,<div><br></div><div>This is a long shot, but has anyone ever experienced Digikam having an impact on HDD life? I am on my third 4Tb hard drive in 3 months (Ubuntu 17.10, Gnome). The drive won't mount, and when I try to mount it, I get </div><div><div><br></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><div>Error mounting system-managed device /dev/sdb: Command-line `mount "/photos/ exited with non-zero status 32: mount:P/photos: can't read superblock on /dev/sdb. </div></div></div><div><div><div>(udisks-error-quark, 0)</div></div></div></blockquote><div><div><br></div><div>Is there any possibility at all that Digikam could cause this? The disk only has photos, and I only use Digikam to manage them. </div><div><br></div><div>I don';t want to replace it if there is any possibility that this could be caused by Digikam. I know it is a long shot, but I have to ask.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>Derek</font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_3509269419720317274gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dr Derek W. Keats, PhD<br>IT Strategy, Higher Education Strategy, Technology Innovation<div>Kenga Solutions Pty Ltd<br><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=2+Hollywood+Drive,+Northcliff,+Johannesburg&entry=gmail&source=g">2 Hollywood Drive, Northcliff, Johannesburg</a><br>Email: <a href="mailto:derek@dkeats.com" target="_blank">derek@dkeats.com</a><br>Phone: <a href="tel:+27%2082%20787%200169" value="+27827870169" target="_blank">+27 82 787 0169</a> / <a href="tel:+27%2011%20477%204954" value="+27114774954" target="_blank">+27 11 477 4954</a><br>Web: <a href="http://www.dkeats.com" target="_blank">http://www.dkeats.com</a><br></div></div></div></div>
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