<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Just wanted folks to know that I was able to clear this up. I edited the db following the instructions linked below and things work fine.<div><br></div><div><a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=456749">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=456749</a><br><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to Digikam 8 which adds support for alternate network paths without having to mess with the db.</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 7:50 AM Andrew Cohen <<a href="mailto:andrew.c.cohen@gmail.com">andrew.c.cohen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Digikam experts,<div><br></div><div>I have Digikam installed on two machines that are on the same network, and am experiencing some strange behavior with my collection of images becoming "unavailable."</div><div><br></div><div>On the mac mini I'm using as a server, Digikam is set up to store its database there with MariaDB and the image collection is Local. I have it at:</div><div><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">/Users/andrew/Pictures/DK-Test</font></span></p></div></blockquote><div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Now, when I fire up digikam on a laptop on the same network, it accesses its database just fine. All the thumbnails and tags come up beautifully. But, if I close digikam and reopen it, I get an error message message saying that the relative path above isn't available on my system. If I set the laptop to find the collection on the network share, it goes to this </font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Andale Mono"">/Volumes/andrew/Pictures/DK-Test</span><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p></div></blockquote><div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">and then when it does, I can access it on the laptop but now I get the "unavailable" message from Digikam on the server!</font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">What should I do?</font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Best,</font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Andrew</font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(0,255,0);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p></div></div>
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