[Digikam-users] digiKam for KDE on Windows "Failed to rename Album"

[Peter Shute]

I guess I first reported it, so I should open the file?  I haven't done that before, is this correct:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224706?

Gilles Caulier wrote on Thursday, 28 January 2010 7:40 PM:

> Please open a new file in bugzilla about  this subject.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Gilles Caulier
> 
> 2010/1/27 David Eriksson <meldavid at acc.umu.se>:
>> I can confirm the behavior. The renaming uses KIO::rename, as fara as
>> I can tell, so maybe the problem is related to this.
>> 
>> David
>> 
>> Peter Shute skrev 2010-01-24 21:22:
>>> - Windows XP Pro, SP3.
>>> - NTFS
>>> - KDE 4.4.60
>>> - LibQt 4.6.0
>>> (All digiKam and all components were freshly compiled a couple of
>>> days ago with emerge.)
>>> 
>>> The collection is in P:\Photos.
>>> 
>>> I have images are in P:\Photos\BirdPhotos.bak\dir1, dir2, etc.  I
>>> was trying to rename BirdPhotos.bak to BirdPhotos. 
>>> 
>>> I created a new album, P:\Photos\temp, and I could rename it.  I
>>> created an empty album under it, P:\Photos\temp\test, and still I
>>> could rename P:\Photos\temp.  But as soon as I placed a photo in
>>> P:\Photos\temp\test, I could rename P:\Photos\temp\test but not
>>> P:\Photos\temp.    
>>> 
>>> Is anyone able to reproduce this behaviour?
>>> 
>>> _______________________________________
>>> From: Gilles Caulier [caulier.gilles at gmail.com]
>>> Sent: Sunday, 24 January 2010 9:19 PM
>>> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with
>>> the 
>>> power of open source
>>> Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] digiKam for KDE on Windows "Failed to
>>> rename       Album" 
>>> 
>>> Which windows version ?
>>> 
>>> Which FS (NTFS or FAT32) ?
>>> 
>>> Which Qt and KDE version ? (go to help/components info for details)
>>> 
>>> Where do you store your image (user dir) ? Try to play with a dir
>>> as c:/temp. 
>>> 
>>> Gilles
>>> 
>>> 2010/1/23 Peter Shute<pshute at nuw.org.au>:
>>> 
>>>> The final version of 1.0.0, which I've just managed to get
>>>> compiled. 
>>>> 
>>>> ________________________________________
>>>> From: Gilles Caulier [caulier.gilles at gmail.com]
>>>> Sent: Saturday, 23 January 2010 5:58 PM
>>>> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with
>>>> the power of open source
>>>> Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] digiKam for KDE on Windows "Failed to
>>>> rename       Album" 
>>>> 
>>>> Which version of  digiKam you use under windows ?
>>>> 
>>>> Gilles Caulier
>>>> 
>>>> 2010/1/23 Peter Shute<pshute at nuw.org.au>:
>>>> 
>>>>> I'm trying to rename a directory in my collection, but it comes
>>>>> up with the error "Failed to rename Album".  It looks like this
>>>>> applies to any directory that has any directories under it.  Is
>>>>> that operation not allowed, for some reason?   
>>>>> 
>>>>> If not, is there a way around this?  What happens if I rename it
>>>>> outside digiKam? 
>>>>> 
>>>>> If there's a technical reason why it isn't allowed, I'd like to
>>>>> request that the error message should say so.  I was initially
>>>>> thinking it was a file permission problem, or that another
>>>>> program had that directory open.   
>>>>> 
>>>>> The behaviour after the rename attempt is erratic too.  If I try
>>>>> to rename a directory called birds1 to birds2, and it fails, then
>>>>> I collapse that part of the tree and expand it again, the
>>>>> directory has the name I attempted to set it to.  But after
>>>>> closing and reopening digiKam, the name is back how it was.    
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm also finding the menu doesn't always come up when I right
>>>>> click on the directory.  Sometimes I have to try it several
>>>>> times, sometimes I have to click on another then back again
>>>>> first.  Sometimes I see the outline of the menu only.