[digiKam-users] Template setup fails

[Alan H]

hi Maik,

Out of curiosity, I have tried several uninstall/installs to see how I originally arrived at just one item - "digiKam DBs"- listed as a file (not a folder) in my Pictures folder. I could not reproduce that event. Even just using the Pictures folder, and no specific digiKam DB folder, in all subsequent installs the four DBs were created in Pictures. I did a final install using a "digiKam DB" folder within Pictures just to keep things clean. I also deleted the file you suggested and a few others just to make sure the install was as clean as possible (FYI - uninstall does not delete all files/folders related to digiKam).

In so far as the DBs may have been the problem, I discovered another glitch when creating templates (at least for me).

The Handbook states (p117):
"To create a new template you type a title in the input field and click the Add...button. The new template will appear in the list.".....
..........
"WARNING Note that all the changes you made to the templates will only be stored in the template file if you exit the settings dialog with OK! The Add...and Replace...buttons only change the template list in the RAM."

I was entering a new Title, clicked the Add button, edited/filled the remaining fields, and then clicked OK. The edited fields remained empty. For me to have it work I had to edit the Title field, followed by all other fields, then click Add, and then click OK. Please let me know if if I am missing something but the current wording is, to me anyway, misleading.

Thanks again for helping.

Regards

Alan

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From: Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2019 11:50 PM
To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org>
Cc: Alan H <webaccounts at live.com>
Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] Template setup fails

Thanks for the log file. Your configuration is wrong, the file "digiKam DBs"
should be a folder, but now it is the database in which all 4 SQLite databases
are located. This is theoretically possible from the table names, but not
useful because of blocking access under SQLite. I can not say at the moment
how this could happen. The best way is to start with a completely new
configuration.

1. Delete "digiKam DBs" and create it as a folder.
2. Delete the digiKam configuration file under "C:/Users/<USER>/AppData/Local/
digikamrc"
3. Start digiKam, it will guide you through the initial settings.

Maik

Am Montag, 29. Juli 2019, 20:41:43 CEST schrieben Sie:
> Please download DebugView from Microsoft and start it. Then start digiKam
> and apply metadata. Please post the log of DebugView here or send it to me
> as private mail.
>
> Maik
>
> Am Montag, 29. Juli 2019, 19:31:09 CEST schrieb Alan H:
> > New digiKam user running 6.2.0 on a Windows 10 laptop.
> >
> > In a previous message I wrote that when adding tags/keywords/captions
> > (and/or writing Metadata to file) I was getting a DB folder does not
> > exist/like to create/could not create/select different location error
> > when,
> > in fact, "digiKam DBs" did exist in my Pictures folder. Gilles Caulier
> > suggested installing 6.2.0 (over 6.1.0) and that resolved the problem -
> > tags/keywords/captions added and written with no error messages.
> >
> > Working on through the program I have now found that I get the same
> > messages when setting up a template for "Rights." I enter/add a title and
> > fill the various Rights fields. Clicking on OK I get the messages listed
> > above (and "digiKam DBs" is in my Pictures folder). However, upon opening
> > the Captions>Information tabs in the right sidebar, and selecting a
> > template, nothing is displayed in the Rights windows for Names,
> > Position....etc. I get the same (non) result when trying to set up a
> > template from the menu bar (Settings>Configure digiKam>templates) as well
> > as from the edit button for Captions>Information on the right side bar.
> >
> > Am I missing something?  Suggestions, fixes most welcome. Thanks.
> >
> >
> > Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows
> > 10




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