[Digikam-users] Can't see photos

[wayne]

On Thursday 01 December 2005 09:28 pm, Achim Bohnet wrote:

> On Friday 02 December 2005 07:57, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> > Le Jeudi 1 Décembre 2005 18:56, wayne a écrit :
> > > On Wednesday 30 November 2005 06:26 pm, wayne wrote:
> > > > I just installed 0.8.0 on my Mandriva 2006 system and I'm having
> > > > problems. I can download my photos into the digikam folders but I
> > > > can't see them in the folder. I know they're there because I can
> > > > see them in Konqueror file manager. Also, when I try to download
> > > > them again into the same folder, it tells me that they're already
> > > > there and asks if I want to write over them. So, the photos are
> > > > there but I can't see them, not even the frames.
> > > >
> > > > Furthermore, the "Aspect Ratio Crop" tool is not listed at all. Is
> > > > there some file that I overlooked during the installation? I used
> > > > an rpm from rpm.pbone.net
> > >
> > > I downloaded and installed the rpm again and this time I'm able to
> > > see my photos and the "Aspect Ration Crop" tool is present. However,
> > > I'm not able to move or copy any pics between folders. I get this
> > > error message: "Could not start process Unable to create io-slave:
> > > klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'digikamio'."
> > >
> > > What is "digikamio?"
> >
> > It's a kio-slave. It's a process running out of digikam instance to
> > perform file operation without frozen digikam GUI. digiKam needed any
> > kioslaves to run properly.
> >
> > If kioslaves can be found to process any tasks like file moving or
> > thumbnails generation, this is want mean that your system is badly
> > configured anywhere. normally kio-slave must been installed in kde
> > directory like this (mandriva 2006) :
> >
> >  [gilles at pc-barn3 ~]$ uname -a
> > Linux pc-barn3 2.6.12-12mdksmp #1 SMP Fri Sep 9 17:43:23 CEST 2005
> > i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz unknown GNU/Linux
> > [gilles at pc-barn3 ~]$ locate kio_digikam
> > /usr/lib/kde3/kio_digikamtags.la
> > /usr/lib/kde3/kio_digikamtags.so
> > /usr/lib/kde3/kio_digikamdates.la
> > /usr/lib/kde3/kio_digikamdates.so
> > /usr/lib/kde3/kio_digikamsearch.la
> > /usr/lib/kde3/kio_digikamsearch.so
> > /usr/lib/kde3/kio_digikamalbums.la
> > /usr/lib/kde3/kio_digikamalbums.so
> > /usr/lib/kde3/kio_digikamio.la
> > /usr/lib/kde3/kio_digikamio.so
> > /usr/lib/kde3/kio_digikamthumbnail.la
> > /usr/lib/kde3/kio_digikamthumbnail.so
>
> Run
> 	kbuildsycoca
>
> or logout/in.
>
> Seem like a/your running KDE session does not notice that new digikam
> kio slaves got installed.
>

I've been unable to remedy this problem. kbuildsycoca does not work, 
neither does rebooting. I've since gone back to 0.74 and it works fine. I 
guess I'll wait to until I upgrade my system to Mandriva 2006.

Thanks,
Wayne