<div data-html-editor-font-wrapper="true"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dear Matthias and dear Maik,<br><br>thanks a lot for your answers.</span></div><div data-html-editor-font-wrapper="true"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><blockquote type="cite"><div data-html-editor-font-wrapper="true"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Look in the digiKam settings under Collections. There you can set up your document folder as an additional collection.</span></div></blockquote><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span><div data-html-editor-font-wrapper="true"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">@Maik I think that's what I was doing actually (unfortunately my embedded screenshot got lost I think, but it showed I was under settings > collections).<br> </span><blockquote><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">How did you install DK? Also via flathub?</span></p></blockquote><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">@Matthias yes, indeed! I too started thinking that could be the problem, due to sandboxing or something so maybe.</span></div><div data-html-editor-font-wrapper="true"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br>I installed DK through appimage now and it looks like the problem isn't there this way.</span></div><div data-html-editor-font-wrapper="true"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Unfortunately appimage breaks a bit my UX (e.g. I can't seem to be able to get system icons on it), so it isn't a perfect solution either, but it's better than being limited to only having the initially selected folder as root.</span></div><div data-html-editor-font-wrapper="true"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div data-html-editor-font-wrapper="true"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Best,</span></div><div data-html-editor-font-wrapper="true"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div data-html-editor-font-wrapper="true"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Edoardo<br><br><br></span><br><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">17 gennaio 2021 12:07, "Matthias Läufer" <</font><a target="_blank" tabindex="-1" href="mailto:matthias-laeufer@web.de?to=%22Matthias%20L%C3%A4ufer%22%20<matthias-laeufer@web.de>" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">matthias-laeufer@web.de</a><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">> wrote:</font><br> <blockquote style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;word-break: break-word"><div style="line-height: 1;padding: 0.5em">Dear Edoardo,<br><br>Although I don't see the attached Screenshots I know what you're talking about. I have the same issue with digikam 7.1 (flathub) and Mint 20.<br>Additionally I tried the following: When adding a collection I was given the option to create a new folder, what I did. The the new collection appeared in DK. In that collection I can create a new album and copy pistures from the old collection to the new one.<br>But on the Filesystem there's no new folder.<br><br>When trying to add an existing folder, I even set the permissions to 777 and changed the user and group to my user for that folder as well as for the parent folder.<br><br>@Edoardo: How did you install DK? Also via flathub?<br><br>Kind regards<br>Matthias</div><div style="line-height: 1;padding: 0.3em">Am 17.01.21, 01:37 schrieb <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:digikam-users-request@kde.org">digikam-users-request@kde.org</a>:<br> <blockquote style="margin: 0.8ex 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left: 1ex">Send Digikam-users mailing list submissions to<br><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:digikam-users@kde.org">digikam-users@kde.org</a><br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br><a rel="external nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" tabindex="-1" href="https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users">https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users</a><br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:digikam-users-request@kde.org">digikam-users-request@kde.org</a><br><br>You can reach the person managing the list at<br><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:digikam-users-owner@kde.org">digikam-users-owner@kde.org</a><br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of Digikam-users digest..."<br><br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br>1. Re: Migrating from Digikam 4 to 6 (Andrew Goodbody)<br>2. Re: Migrating from Digikam 4 to 6 (Rob Dueckman)<br>3. No selectable folders for root path (Edoardo Milan)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2021 18:42:52 +0000<br>From: Andrew Goodbody <<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:ajg02@elfringham.co.uk">ajg02@elfringham.co.uk</a>><br>To: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:digikam-users@kde.org">digikam-users@kde.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] Migrating from Digikam 4 to 6<br>Message-ID: <<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:3b41e8d9-9c7f-77f5-6572-fa529cf23a3f@elfringham.co.uk">3b41e8d9-9c7f-77f5-6572-fa529cf23a3f@elfringham.co.uk</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed<br><br>No, the migration tool will not move or copy your picture files. At<br>least not unless you are doing something unusual that you have not told<br>us about.<br><br>I suspect that you may be suffering from the change in location of where<br>the digikamrc file was stored, so the new version of digikam is not<br>aware of where the old version kept its settings. That may not be well<br>dealt with as you are leaping over a major release, ie digikam 5. But<br>then I do not remember precisely when that happened, so maybe not.<br><br>But you are moving from a very old and obsolete version of digikam to an<br>old and obsolete version of digikam. You would do better to follow<br>Giles' advice and download the latest release appimage for digikam 7.<br><br>If there is anything you are not sure about please ask a specific<br>question with as much detail as possible. Explain what you see and why<br>it concerns you. I do not remember ever needing to run any sort of<br>migration so I cannot guide you on it with the question you have asked.<br>You are assuming a level of familiarity with a once in a lifetime task<br>that we simply do not have nor should we be expected to have.<br><br>Andrew<br><br>On 16/01/2021 15:18, J D wrote:<br>> Does the migration tool move the picture files or make copies of them?<br>> Is it possible to do the migration in-place?<br>><br>> BR,<br>> angrdtsk<br>><br>> la 16. tammik. 2021 klo 15.40 Gilles Caulier (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com">caulier.gilles@gmail.com</a><br>> <<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com">caulier.gilles@gmail.com</a>>) kirjoitti:<br>><br>> Le sam. 16 janv. 2021 à 14:25, J D <<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:angrdtsk@gmail.com">angrdtsk@gmail.com</a><br>> <<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:angrdtsk@gmail.com">angrdtsk@gmail.com</a>>> a écrit :<br>> ><br>> > Hi, and thanks for quick reply,<br>> ><br>> > I got Digikam 6.4 along with a Linux distro, so updating it may<br>> not be that simple.<br>><br>> We provide an universal Linux AppImage bundle. There is nothing to<br>> install, it does not install anything. AppImage is just a simple<br>> executable which uncompresses the whole dependencies in a virtual disk<br>> in memory and runs the application using chroot.<br>><br>> It's simple to use.<br>><br>> Just to be sure, backup all your database files previously, in case<br>> of...<br>><br>> ><br>> > Do I have any options in addition to using the migration tool?<br>><br>> No, because we have fixed more than 1300 bugs since the 6.x release,<br>> so it will be complicated to resume all problems from previous<br>> releases.<br>><br>> ><br>> > What would be the preferred (hopefully future-proof) solution for<br>> this case?<br>> ><br>><br>> This kind of huge migration must be performed carefully. This is my<br>> recommandations:<br>><br>> 1/ Backup databases in all cases.<br>> 2/ Change Setup/metadata/xmp sidecar option and create a new XMP<br>> sidecar file for all images. Use Maintenance tool.<br>> 3/ Stop digiKam and remove your previous database.<br>> 4/ start the new 7.2.0 appimage. It will ask to recreate the database<br>> from scratch scanning collection (especially XMP sidecar).<br>> 5/ Let's start the scan and take a coffee.<br>><br>> Alternative, more faster of course :<br>><br>> 1/ Backup databases in all cases.<br>> 2/ run migration database tool<br>> 3/ setup original DB and target DB.<br>> 4/ process migration and take a coffee.<br>><br>> I always processed the first solution with my huge familly collection<br>> (250Mb on SSD with sqlite).<br>><br>> Best<br>><br>> Gilles Caulier<br>><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2021 15:17:19 -0500<br>From: Rob Dueckman <<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:duke@dukey.org">duke@dukey.org</a>><br>To: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:digikam-users@kde.org">digikam-users@kde.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] Migrating from Digikam 4 to 6<br>Message-ID: <<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:43b174317857becdbad751240f4e5ccd9529e72e.camel@dukey.org">43b174317857becdbad751240f4e5ccd9529e72e.camel@dukey.org</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><br>There are many ways to skin a cat when it comes to upgrading your copy<br>of Digikam.<br><br>As you are upgrading from a pretty old version, these are the steps >I<<br>would do things in:<br><br>1) make sure you have a current backup of your photos. From your<br>earlier messages, it appears you don't like to write the metadata to<br>your photos as it messes with your backups, so I imagine you are doing<br>incremental backups. Just make sure everything is up do date with your<br>backup first<br><br>2) configure Digikam to write all metadata into sidecar files (.xmp)<br>Once done, sync the metadata for all your photos to disk. This will<br>take a bit of time, and will write a .xmp file for every photo<br><br>3) MOVE your digikam database files and digikam settings folder to a<br>safe place. You want these to be re-created when you run digikam the<br>next time<br><br>4) download the appimage for the current 7.2 release candidate for<br>Digikam and mark it executable (either command line or viewing the<br>properties from the desktop)<br>You can find the latest release candidate at<br><a rel="external nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" tabindex="-1" href="https://files.kde.org/digikam/">https://files.kde.org/digikam/</a> You will want the X86-64 file as<br>you are running a current linux distribution<br><br>5) Run the appimage (double click on the appimage icon from your file<br>browser on the desktop) and perform the first run configuration<br>pointing digikam at your photo library. Once it starts scanning<br>photos, take a break. It might take a while<br><br>6) if everything looks good, uninstall your old copy of digikam, and<br>remove the old database files and settings folder.<br><br>7) In case things don't work, restore your original database files and<br>digikam settings folder and appimage file to revert back to the old<br>version.<br><br>8) configure Digikam settings and update for your preferred metadata<br>settings. As .xmp files are quite small, it might be acceptable to<br>write to .xmp files in addition to the database in the future as it<br>won't affect your backup size too dramatically.<br><br>9) for bonus points and if you're bored enduring a COVID lockdown, scan<br>your entire collecton for faces and be prepared to name a lot of<br>people.<br><br><br>Again, this is how I would upgrade my digikam as it gives the ability<br>to roll back at any point until you remove the old database and<br>configuration files.<br><br>Rob<br><br><br>On Sat, 2021-01-16 at 15:25 +0200, J D wrote:<br>> Hi, and thanks for quick reply,<br>><br>> I got Digikam 6.4 along with a Linux distro, so updating it may not<br>> be that simple.<br>><br>> Do I have any options in addition to using the migration tool?<br>><br>> What would be the preferred (hopefully future-proof) solution for<br>> this case?<br>><br>> BR,<br>> angrdtsk<br>><br>> la 16. tammik. 2021 klo 15.13 Gilles Caulier<br>> (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com">caulier.gilles@gmail.com</a>) kirjoitti:<br>> > Le sam. 16 janv. 2021 à 14:01, J D <<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:angrdtsk@gmail.com">angrdtsk@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br>> > ><br>> > > Hi,<br>> > ><br>> > > I lately installed a new Linux distribution, and along with that<br>> > change, got new version of Digikam (4 -> 6.4). How can I import the<br>> > meta-data created using the old one to the new one?<br>> > ><br>> > > The meta-data is in a database file. I don't like the idea of<br>> > embedding it into the picture files because that way, changes in<br>> > meta-data would mean changes in picture files, and that would<br>> > complicate making back ups.<br>> ><br>> > If you use XMP sidecar files (See option in DK/Setup/Metadata<br>> > panel),<br>> > you will not touch image files as well.<br>> ><br>> > ><br>> > > I found a dialog for migration in the new Digikam, but got<br>> > immediately confused, as it seems to require me to move (or copy,<br>> > that was unclear) the pictures from a directory to another along<br>> > with the migration. There are roughly 35000 pictures taking 475 GB<br>> > of space so proceeding with that dialog is not something I will try<br>> > before I know better what is going happen and why.<br>> ><br>> > In all cases, if you use database migration tool, do not migrate to<br>> > 6.4 release, but to 7.2. release candidate available here :<br>> ><br>> > <a rel="external nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" tabindex="-1" href="https://files.kde.org/digikam/">https://files.kde.org/digikam/</a><br>> ><br>> > Best<br>> ><br>> > Gilles Caulier<br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <<a rel="external nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" tabindex="-1" href="http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-users/attachments/20210116/2088f39c/attachment-0001.htm">http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-users/attachments/20210116/2088f39c/attachment-0001.htm</a>><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 3<br>Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 01:36:40 +0100<br>From: Edoardo Milan <<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:edoardo.milan@e.email">edoardo.milan@e.email</a>><br>To: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:digikam-users@kde.org">digikam-users@kde.org</a><br>Subject: [digiKam-users] No selectable folders for root path<br>Message-ID: <<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:1610843800.16821.0@mail.ecloud.global">1610843800.16821.0@mail.ecloud.global</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"<br><br>Dear all,<br><br>I'm running digiKam 7.1 on elementary os 5.1.7.<br>On the guided setup, I selected my Images folder as root folder for<br>digiKam.<br>Now I want to add my Documents folder to my albums in digiKam too...<br>but none of my home folders show up in the "add albums" dialog except<br>Images (already imported).<br>I'm attaching images where my folders are visible (Files app) and not<br>visible (digiKam). 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