<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">I don't think digiKam crashed. Network drives are way slower than local ones so it just takes a very long time to scan them.</div><div dir="auto">It took mine 12 to 18 hours to re-add a 500Gb collection yesterday.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.</div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000" dir="auto"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Alex Antão <alex@familiaturista.com.br> </div><div>Date: 2019-10-22 5:31 a.m. (GMT-07:00) </div><div>To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <digikam-users@kde.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] Avoid full rescan if a network collection isn't available? </div><div><br></div></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div>I don't know if this is related, but....<br></div><div><br></div><div>In my Mac, I have been exporting my photos to my external HD.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I mounted it on /Volumes/FOTOS, and exported a lot os files there. <br></div><div>Configured this directory as a network drive in Digikam and also to watch this for external changes.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Then, I quit Digikam, unplugged the drive and plugged it on my Time Capsule. <br></div><div>Then shared the drive over network and mounted back in my Mac on the same directory: /Volumes/FOTOS<br></div><div><br></div><div>When I started Digikam, it stopped loading on splashscreen and kept this for hours. Never fully loaded. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Then, I forced it to finish, umounted the Volume and loded Digikam again. It loaded with the DB fully loaded, didn't cleaned it and rescanned again.<br></div><div>Then, for one more test, I mount the network drive back again, but Digikam stopped watch the directory for external changes, I added and removed files but digikam didn't see those changes.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="" class="zmail_extra"><div><br></div><div id="Zm-_Id_-Sgn1">---- Ativado Ter, 22 out 2019 03:25:38 -0300 <b> <jdd@dodin.org></b> escreveu ----<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 6px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px;"><div>Le 22/10/2019 à 02:13, Andrey Goreev a écrit : <br>> For some reason the collection was marked as 'local'. I am not sure how <br>> did that happen. I am pretty positive I chose 'network' when was adding it. <br> <br>some time again (may be some years) removable collections where marked <br>local at some point. <br> <br>I dunno if it's still the case, probably not, but don't remember when <br>the fix was done <br> <br>jdd <br> <br> <br>-- <br><a target="_blank" href="http://dodin.org">http://dodin.org</a> <br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div></div><br></body></html>