[Digikam-users] Can't Create Album on WinXP

[Patrick Spendrin]

Gary Pajer schrieb:
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Patrick Spendrin <ps_ml at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Gary Pajer schrieb:
>>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Patrick Spendrin <ps_ml at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>> Gary Pajer schrieb:
>>>>> Version 0.10.0-beta6 (rev.: 887796)  (svn, built myself)
>> Can you please always add your compiler here ;-)!!!!
>> The behaviour might differ between mingw and msvc.
> 
> mingw
> 
> 
>>>>> I have folders on an external USB drive that I want to add as albums.
>>>>> If I choose Album>New... and fill in the dialog box, click ok, digiKam
>>>>> returns with an error:  "Failed to create directory"
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this a bug, a problem with my system, problem with my build, or am
>>>>> I doing something wrong?
>>>> I couldn't see this, but on the other hand I tried to add a new external
>>>> repository and this crashed digikam (I had no time to look after that).
>>>> So very likely it is a bug.
>>> By "add a new external repository" do you mean add an album of images
>>> that live on an external drive?  If not, what is an external
>>> repository?
>>>
>>> -g
>> Settings->Configure Digikam->Collections->Collections on
>> Removable...->Add Collection
>> then choosing a folder -> crash
>>
>> about the klauncher stuff: please kill all KDE applications (including
>> dbus-daemon), run 'update-mime-database %KDEROOT%\share\mime' (replace
>> KDEROOT) from your kderoot directory, then run 'kbuildsycoca4
>> --noincremental'. Very likely then you can experience the same crash as
>> I do.
> 
> Progress:  I did as you suggest, and the klauncher stuff is gone.
> 
> Settings>Configure digiKam>Removable Media>
> The dialog open up, and a file tree is displayed.  But it's root is
> c:\, and I can't figure out how to find my external USB drive.
> Windows has assigned it a drive letter (H:) which I can see in Windows
> Explorer.
> 
> Changing the "tab" selection on the left:
> "Home" and "Root" both show a tree rooted at c:\
> "Network" and "Trash" are blank
> 
> (I continue to feel that I'm missing something obvious.  If so, I apologize.)
What I wrote before is non-sense and is only applicaple to KDE file dialogs.
At the bottom you should be able to set your path as you wish.
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> gary
Patrick
> 
> 
> 
>> regards,
>> Patrick
>>
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