[digiKam-users] [digiKam-Users} Digikam-6.4.0 Failure to add windows library to collection.

[Ian McCarthy]

Thank you for that Maik,
I added the offending folders as network collections and that has worked.

As a note, it may have been more useful, as the software must have 
spotted the problem, if it had said something like duplicate UUID in the 
error message.

A second note, I'm not sure just how its getting the UUID wrong, as when 
I look
F: is Bus No. 0 Target ID 0 Lun 0 with a GUID :3D6C5FC1
C: is Bus No. 3 Target ID 0 Lun 0 with a GUID :081907A4

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Cheers Ian Mac

On 05/04/2020 10:56, Maik Qualmann wrote:
> DigiKam changed your drive from C: to F: because both drives have the same
> UUID and now selected the wrong drive. Reformatting one of the two drives
> would be one solution. It is better to add the collection as a network
> collection. In the case of a network collection, only the path for
> identification is used.
>
> Maik
>
> Am Sonntag, 5. April 2020, 11:48:25 CEST schrieb Ian McCarthy:
>> Running on a Windows 10 system. Digikam-6.4.0
>> So in the Configure window I selected Collections and then used Add
>> Collection.
>> I then selected the required library and all appears to be good.
>> The library appears with a library icon with a plus on it, and the
>> correct full library name appeared on the right. I then clicked OK. A
>> pop-up window appeared almost straight away
>> "It was not possible to add a collection for the following path"
>> and then the path I had just requested.
>> The library I was attempting to add was
>> "C:\Users\Ian McCarthy\Pictures"
>> does the space in the name matter? Other names with spaces in appear to
>> work.
>> Afterwards if I go back to add collections  the local name has appeared
>> and its file name is "F:\Users\Ian McCarthy\Pictures"
>>
>> I discovered that the library was read only so I altered that but this
>> made no difference.
>>
>> Any idea's what I'm doing wrong?
>
>
>

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