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<p class="MsoNormal">Just as a follow-up, I haven’t heard back if there was a fix for the issue presented below. Basically, if I open a photo in a child folder I cannot rename any parent folder above it. Since I am back into culling and organizing 30+ years
of digitized slides this is quite important to the workflow. I tried downloading and re-installing 6.4.0 (windows) today to see if there has been a fix but it appears not. Can this be fixed or is there another solution? Thanks for your help with this.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Alan </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:webaccounts@live.com">Alan H</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Monday, March 30, 2020 1:40 PM<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:digikam-users@kde.org">digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [digiKam-users] Failed to rename Album</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Greetings all,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After following up on the suggestions provided (except for APIs of which I know nothing), and just trying various renaming scenarios, I rather randomly ended up at Maik’s third point (I think) of “a preview image was previously opened in
digiKam”. If, in a collection, I open/preview a photo I am blocked from renaming (Failed to rename Folder error) any parent folder higher in the hierarchy above the folder in which the photo was previewed. But, I can rename the photo in the child folder in
which the photo was previewed, and all other child folders at the same level, if that makes sense.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Maik, Gilles, have you had a chance to look into this - is this something that can fixed? I understand with the covid-19 pandemic that you may have other priorities. Can I at least safely rename blocked folders in Windows file explorer
until there is a fix? With thanks, Alan.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com">Gilles Caulier</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Friday, March 27, 2020 1:00 AM<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:digikam-users@kde.org">digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [digiKam-users] Failed to rename Album<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Maik,<br>
<br>
In my office, i had a Windows computer running under Windows 10 with a<br>
huge Qt based program dedicated to record measurement files in local<br>
before to upload data in a remote database.<br>
<br>
While this process i remember that local files cannot be cleaned in<br>
local when uploading was complete. The file remove was based on QFile<br>
class if i remember. The origin of the problem was the desktop search<br>
engine from Windows running in background which look files in<br>
parallel. In fact when you write a new file somewhere, Windows open<br>
files in background to parse contents and reference metadata in a<br>
search engine database.<br>
<br>
Possible solutions :<br>
<br>
1/ disable the search service from Windows<br>
2/ set the search service to ignore specific paths<br>
3/ use a Windows API before to create new file to be ignored by the<br>
search engine.<br>
4/ use a Windows API to force to unlock file in all cases.<br>
<br>
Note : the Windows file unlock mechanism is not managed by Qt API for<br>
Windows. I remember to see a bug reported in Qt about this problem...<br>
<br>
Gilles<br>
<br>
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Le mer. 25 mars 2020 à 02:34, Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin@gmail.com> a écrit :<br>
><br>
> Yes, renaming or deleting folders can fail under Windows if they are in use<br>
> and locked by Windows.<br>
><br>
> Folders are locked when<br>
> - subfolders are open in Explorer<br>
> - folders are part of a Windows network share<br>
> - a preview image was previously opened in digiKam<br>
><br>
> At the last point we have to see if there are still open file handlers and fix<br>
> this.<br>
><br>
> Maik<br>
><br>
> Am Dienstag, 24. März 2020, 23:23:34 CET schrieb Alan H:<br>
> > Hello,<br>
> ><br>
> > My albums are generally organized as follows:<br>
> ><br>
> > Collection (year)>Parent Album (mm month)>Child Album (dd day)<br>
> ><br>
> > The parent albums are named 01 Jan to 12 Dec and I would like to add a<br>
> > location description. When I rename a parent album I get a “Failed to<br>
> > rename Album” error. This happens whether right clicking the selected album<br>
> > for “properties” or “rename”, or from the Menu bar>Albums>properties/rename<br>
> > or from Shift+F2. I can rename a child album but only if it is the lowest<br>
> > order (last) child. I can rename an parent album/folder in Windows Explorer<br>
> > and the change appears in digiKam but this is an awkward solution.<br>
> ><br>
> > I’m running digiKam 6.3.0 on Windows 10 and the folders (albums) are located<br>
> > on both a local hard drive and a locally attached USB drive.<br>
> ><br>
> > Any solutions or suggestions? Thanks for helping with this inquiry.<br>
> ><br>
> > Alan<br>
> > Sent from Mail<<a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986</a>> for Windows<br>
> > 10<br>
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