<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto">I had the exact same situation and solution last nite.<div dir="auto">Mark</div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: James Orr <james.orr@orrenterprises.us> </div><div>Date: 7/18/24 2:59 PM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: "digikam-users-group--kde.org" <digikam-users@kde.org> </div><div>Subject: HELP: After update 8.3--> 8.4 Digikam workspace is entirely white </div><div><br></div></div>
My system is Win 11 Pro with much more than the minimum operating requirements.<br>
In all the years I have used and updated digiKam, I have never had this experience.<br>
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<li>I used the internal check for updates and used it to download 8.4.</li><li>I started the download and got an error message. <br>
</li><li>After many retry attempts. I closed that window and went directly to downloads.</li><li>I started the update, and prepared to uninstall.</li><li>digiKam was closed and I got this:</li><li>After many retry attempts, I selected Ignore<img height="400" width="251" alt="DK appears running, please close" src="cid:part1.vCf8FAWj.AH9XNu9G@orrenterprises.us" onmouseover="imageMousePointerUpdate(true)" onmouseout="imageMousePointerUpdate(false)"></li><li>Uninstall seemed to have worked, and Install started with this:<img height="400" width="259" alt="Digikam Install DK appears running" src="cid:part2.juv2bqSV.edbyeqBm@orrenterprises.us" onmouseover="imageMousePointerUpdate(true)" onmouseout="imageMousePointerUpdate(false)"></li><li>After many retry attempts, I selected Ignore.</li><li>When digiKam restarted, I got this: <img height="400" width="593" alt="Failed Start Digikam" src="cid:part3.1GvcQzrS.tyxUuOOV@orrenterprises.us" onmouseover="imageMousePointerUpdate(true)" onmouseout="imageMousePointerUpdate(false)"></li><li>Then I rebooted and reinstalled, doing essentially all the steps above with much the same results.</li><li>I did this a couple of times at least.</li><li>Then I went to the download.kde.org site for digiKam-8.4-Qt6-Win64.exe and replace the initial digiKam-8.4.0-Qt5-Win64.exe with another one.</li><li>This one opened OK.</li></ol>
I have never had to struggle so much to do an digiKam update in any of the previous ones.<br>
I am baffled by the process, and pleased to have then new system up and running.<br>
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Good work, team. I'm rooting for you always.<br>
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