All albums are removed if there is a network disconnection

[Andrey Goreev]

Woenx,

Thank you for taking the time to investigate on this.

I suggest you to open relevant bug reports in bugzilla (one for the network
collections issue with digikam on windows, one for the font size changing
issue on linux)
If you want to attach link to this forum thread, here it is:
http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/All-albums-are-removed-if-there-is-a-network-disconnection-td4704993.html

In the meantime, as a workaround you might want to consider creating a
virtual machine with some light linux distro installed to be able to use
digikam from your windows laptop/desktop.
I have been doing so for a couple of years before switched to linux
completely.
I used this distro:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/runtu/files/runtu%2016.04/XFCE/runtu-xfce-16.04.3-amd64_20170806.iso/download
I chose it because 1. I have known it for years 2. It is light (679Mb) 3.
It is rock solid and just works.

Best regards,
Andrey

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 10:24 AM, woenx <marcpalaus at hotmail.com> wrote:

> On windows: I disabled the database cleanup option, restarted Digikam, and
> disconnected the wifi network. Same result, all albums just disappeared in
> a
> few seconds. I also disabled the option to scan at startup, with same
> outcome. These two options do not make a difference in this behavior.
>
> On my linux machine, running ubuntu 16.043 LTS and Digikam 5.8.0 (using the
> appimage file, since the PPA is not updated), with the same conditions
> (source as shared folder, explore and clean database at startup, and SQLite
> db stored locally at /home/username/Images/), I waited until it started
> scanning new folders... I disconnected the wifi... and nothing. Nothing
> happened, the albums are still there, unaffected. If I turn on the wifi
> again, the scan continues, with no error messages whatsoever.
>
> So it seems this bug only affects the windows version.
>
> PS: Btw, one bug I found in the linux release: the font size option is not
> applied until you enter and exit the configuration menu in digikam, and
> needs to be done every time, which is annoying.
>
>
>
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