[digiKam-users] Long shot re Digikam impact on Drives

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,
Problem not know. HDD time life depend of a lots of factor, as temperature
for ex.

Where is located the database files. At the same place ?

Gilles Caulier

2018-03-20 16:01 GMT+01:00 Derek Keats <derek at dkeats.com>:

> Hi Folks,
>
> This is a long shot, but has anyone ever experienced Digikam having an
> impact on HDD life? I am on my third 4Tb hard drive in 3 months (Ubuntu
> 17.10, Gnome). The drive won't mount, and when I try to mount it, I get
>
> Error mounting system-managed device /dev/sdb: Command-line `mount
> "/photos/ exited with non-zero status 32: mount:P/photos: can't read
> superblock on /dev/sdb.
> (udisks-error-quark, 0)
>
>
> Is there any possibility at all that Digikam could cause this? The disk
> only has photos, and I only use Digikam to manage them.
>
> I don';t want to replace it if there is any possibility that this could be
> caused by Digikam. I know it is a long shot, but I have to ask.
>
> Thanks
> Derek
>
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