[Digikam-users] How can I cange my main directory?

Sjoerd sjoerd at sjomar.eu
Tue Jun 14 09:22:41 BST 2016



On 06/06/2016 11:38, Wolfgang Mueller wrote:
> I run digiKam 4.6.0 under kde 4.14.9 under SuSE 13.2.
> 
> Beeing completely new to digiKam, I set it up yesterday, unfortunately
> following the suggestions of the initial set up tool and accepting
> ~/Pictures as main directory.
> 
> Now, I want to change the main directory, but that is not possible. So
> I renamed it, hoping that a new initial set up tool would appear, but
> what appeared was only a pop up window that asked me to define
> additional places. I specified /photos where my photos reside, but
> this does not work well because when I want to see a photo, it says
> "Failed to load image".
> 
> Then I uninstalled digiKam, restarted the computer and reinstalled
> digiKam. But this did not help. Again, I get the pop up window
> described above that asks me to define additional places.
> 
> Is there really no possibility to have the initial set up tool one more 
> time?

Don't know exactly where it would be located in opensuse, but most 
likely as well at ~/.kde/share/config/digikamrc
Just delete the digikamrc file and it will ask again..

Cheers,
Sjoerd



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