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Hi. Thanks, I am out of office and away  from computer, back in about an hour will send to you soon as back. Gregory
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From:Andrey Goreev <aegoreev at gmail.com>
Sent:Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:22:10 +1300
To:digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org>
Subject:Re:

>If you could record your screen and share the video with us that would help to understand the issue.
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>I have never seen anything like that.
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>Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
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>From: YGPC <ygpc at hushmail.com> 
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>Date: 2017-03-14 6:16 PM (GMT-07:00) 
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>To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org> 
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>Subject: Re: 
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>Sent on:  15 March 2017, at 01:16 pm
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>Hi Andrew
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>I did use 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
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>Gregory
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>On 15/03/17 12:26, Andrew Goodbody wrote:
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>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. 
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>Andrew 
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>On 14/03/17 22:58, YGPC wrote: 
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>Hi 
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>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! 
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>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 
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>Gregory 
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>On 15/03/17 11:48, Andreas T. Ege wrote: 
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>Hello, 
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>On 14.03.2017 22:05, YGPC wrote: 
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>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 
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>maybe some more information about the hard drive(s), system setup and 
>what "ALL found suggestions" that are not working are? 
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>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. 
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