[Digikam-users] Difference between collection types

[Stephen]

Hi All,

The only problem with solid is that it does not seem to detect a device 
is removable IF it is encrypted with either Luks or truecrypt.

-- Stephen.


On Sunday 07 June 2009 14:01:27 Marcel Wiesweg wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a somewhat complicated Album Collection setup that I am 
trying to
> > figure out. I'm wondering what are the differences between Local,
> > Removable Media and Network Share collections. It is my 
understanding
> > that any collection not residing on the local drive must be 
mounted
> > before using it, so I don't see what the distinction is. Thanks for 
any
> > advice!
>
> For removable devices we have a good API (Solid) which works 
(under Linux,
> not or partially implemented under Windows) and helps us to know 
if a given
> device is connected or not.
> For network collections, be it Samba, NFS or whatever, we have no 
such API
> at all, we dont know if a given mount path is empty because it's 
empty or
> because the collection is not mounted. Therefore, for network 
collections,
> the algorithm is to check if a directory is empty, then it is not 
mounted.
>
> Marcel
>
> > Paul
>
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