No subject

[YGPC]

Sent on:  15 March 2017, at 01:16 pm

Hi Andrew

I diduse the "Collection" way but all I go was the 'head" folder so to 
speak, none of the sub-folders or individual photo/image files, any 
suggestions on why this happened

Gregory



On 15/03/17 12:26, Andrew Goodbody wrote:
> OK, this sounds like you are trying to do the wrong thing. For photos 
> on the computer, you add that location as a 'Collection' to digiKam, 
> you do not 'Import' them. Importing will make a copy of the images and 
> is used to bring in photos from an external source eg camera or flash 
> card etc.
>
> Andrew
>
> On 14/03/17 22:58, YGPC wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I do have all the required permissions, like can read and write to all
>> drives, so can't be that. I did in between writing back and forth get
>> Digikam to find the Photos folder, click to import and all that was
>> imported was the main folder, "Photos" no sub folders and it has
>> duplicated the Photos folder about 40 times, each folder called photos
>> being a sub folder of the previous!
>>
>> Have spent hours on this and about ready to just delete all and
>> everything associated with DigiKam and look for something that works,
>> unless you can convince me otherwise. I see I am not alone with this
>> same problem
>>
>> Gregory
>>
>>
>>
>> On 15/03/17 11:48, Andreas T. Ege wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> On 14.03.2017 22:05, YGPC wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>> Have just installed Digikam 5 on Ubuntu, my photo folder in on a
>>>> separate drive (within the computer, not external USB etc) and Digikam
>>>> can't "see" the other drive, just only sees the system drive so can't
>>>> import. Any chance of a suggestion, if so, greatly appreciated
>>>> Have tried ALL found suggestions, nothing works for me!
>>>> Gregory
>>>>
>>> maybe some more information about the hard drive(s), system setup and
>>> what "ALL found suggestions" that are not working are?
>>>
>>> Besides the suggested mount possibility I would think about permissions
>>> as a first step. You might have tried that, if running digikam as root
>>> does find the drive/ folders it would suggest a permission problem.
>>> Another try is to right click on one of the images in your folder and
>>> "open with" digikam. At least you'd then know whether digikam can
>>> actually "see" the images or not.
>>>
>>>
>>
>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-users/attachments/20170315/50b92d55/attachment.html>