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<p dir="auto">You don’t need to do that. The problem is that every time the Mac has a system update the uuid of the main drive changes. Why? No idea - it’s just the kind of fun apple likes to have with us I guess.</p>
<p dir="auto">The solution, as kludgy as it may be is:</p>
<p dir="auto">Prerequisites: You need to install sqlite3 to be able to manipulate your existing database.</p>
<p dir="auto">Steps:</p>
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<li>Run your disk utility program. Note the uuid of the drive. To get it, click on the Macintosh HD line, then the uuid is in the lower right side.</li>
<li>Cd into the directory where your digikam.db is located.</li>
<li>sqlite3 digicam.db</li>
<li>select identifier from AlbumRoots where id = 1;</li>
<li>Now you’ll see the value you need to change. You’ve got to make the uuid value be what you found in step 1.</li>
<li>update AlbumRoots set identifier = 'volumeid:?uuid=<value from step 1> where id = 1;</li>
<li>Note that you don’t include the brackets in the above command.</li>
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<p dir="auto">I’ve been following this process every time. There is a proposed solution, but it isn’t yet implemented.</p>
<p dir="auto">Regards,<br>
Bill</p>
<p dir="auto">On 13 Oct 2023, at 9:04, Mark Simon wrote:</p>
</div><div class="plaintext" style="white-space: normal;"><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-left: 2px solid #777777; color: #777777;"><p dir="auto">I ended up deleting Digikam and re-installing and building the database from scratch.</p>
<blockquote style="margin: 0 0 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-left: 2px solid #777777; border-left-color: #999999; color: #999999;"><p dir="auto">On Oct 13, 2023, at 12:21 AM, Sebastian Beer <sebastian.beer66@icloud.com> wrote:</p>
<p dir="auto">Did you try removing the collection and re-adding it?</p>
<p dir="auto">Mit freundlichen Grüßen,</p>
<p dir="auto">Sebastian Beer</p>
<blockquote style="margin: 0 0 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-left: 2px solid #777777; border-left-color: #BBBBBB; color: #BBBBBB;"><p dir="auto">Am 12.10.2023 um 23:57 schrieb Mark Simon <mark.simon@sbcglobal.net>:</p>
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<p dir="auto">I upgraded Digicam from version 7.x to version 8.1.0 on my mac running 12.6.7 Monterey. My database is there but my photos are not. In the Preferences under Collections I see my collection listed under “Collections on Removable Media” with the right path /Volumes/MyDrive/Pictures. When I try to browse the path again I get the error “The selected folder does not exist or is not readable”. I checked that Digicam has Full Disk Access in Mac Security settings.</p>
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