[digiKam-users] FW: Failed to rename Album

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi all,

In fact to be clear, the Maik patch will be introduced in 7.0.0-RC,
that i will bundle now in pre-release repository. official beta3 which
will be released in few days will not include these changes.

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le jeu. 23 avr. 2020 à 11:03, Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> a écrit :
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> Hi Alan,
>
> this problem has only been solved for Windows in digiKam-7.0.0-Beta3, even better > Beta3. The Beta3 will be released in a few days. You can already download the snappshots here:
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> https://files.kde.org/digikam/
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> Maik
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> Am Mi., 22. Apr. 2020 um 20:13 Uhr schrieb Alan H <webaccounts at live.com>:
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>> Hello,
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>> Just as a follow-up, I haven’t heard back if there was a fix for the issue presented below. Basically, if I open a photo in a child folder I cannot rename any parent folder above it. Since I am back into culling and organizing 30+ years of digitized slides this is quite important to the workflow. I tried downloading and re-installing 6.4.0 (windows) today to see if there has been a fix but it appears not. Can this be fixed or is there another solution? Thanks for your help with this.
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>> Alan
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>> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
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>> From: Alan H
>> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 1:40 PM
>> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source
>> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] Failed to rename Album
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>> Greetings all,
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>> After following up on the suggestions provided (except for APIs of which I know nothing), and just trying various renaming scenarios, I rather randomly ended up at Maik’s third point (I think) of “a preview image was previously opened in digiKam”. If, in a collection, I open/preview a photo I am blocked from renaming (Failed to rename Folder error) any parent folder higher in the hierarchy above the folder in which the photo was previewed. But, I can rename the photo in the child folder in which the photo was previewed, and all other child folders at the same level, if that makes sense.
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>> Maik, Gilles, have you had a chance to look into this - is this something that can fixed? I understand with the covid-19 pandemic that you may have other priorities. Can I at least safely rename blocked folders in Windows file explorer until there is a fix? With thanks, Alan.
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>> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
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>> From: Gilles Caulier
>> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 1:00 AM
>> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source
>> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] Failed to rename Album
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>> Maik,
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>> In my office, i had a Windows computer running under Windows 10 with a
>> huge Qt based program dedicated to record measurement files in local
>> before to upload data in a remote database.
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>> While this process i remember that local files cannot be cleaned in
>> local when uploading was complete. The file remove was based on QFile
>> class if i remember. The origin of the problem was the desktop search
>> engine from Windows running in background which look files in
>> parallel. In fact when you write a new file somewhere, Windows open
>> files in background to parse contents and reference metadata in a
>> search engine database.
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>> Possible solutions :
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>> 1/ disable the search service from Windows
>> 2/ set the search service to ignore specific  paths
>> 3/ use a Windows API before to create new file to be ignored by the
>> search engine.
>> 4/ use a Windows API to force to unlock file in all cases.
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>> Note : the Windows file unlock mechanism is not managed by Qt API for
>> Windows. I remember to see a bug reported in Qt about this problem...
>>
>> Gilles
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>> Le mer. 25 mars 2020 à 02:34, Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> a écrit :
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>> > Yes, renaming or deleting folders can fail under Windows if they are in use
>> > and locked by Windows.
>> >
>> > Folders are locked when
>> > - subfolders are open in Explorer
>> > - folders are part of a Windows network share
>> > - a preview image was previously opened in digiKam
>> >
>> > At the last point we have to see if there are still open file handlers and fix
>> > this.
>> >
>> > Maik
>> >
>> > Am Dienstag, 24. März 2020, 23:23:34 CET schrieb Alan H:
>> > > Hello,
>> > >
>> > > My albums are generally organized as follows:
>> > >
>> > > Collection (year)>Parent Album (mm month)>Child Album (dd day)
>> > >
>> > > The parent albums are named 01 Jan to 12 Dec and I would like to add a
>> > > location description. When I rename a parent album I get a “Failed to
>> > > rename Album” error. This happens whether right clicking the selected album
>> > > for “properties” or “rename”, or from the Menu bar>Albums>properties/rename
>> > > or from Shift+F2. I can rename a child album but only if it is the lowest
>> > > order (last) child. I can rename an parent album/folder in Windows Explorer
>> > > and the change appears in digiKam but this is an awkward solution.
>> > >
>> > > I’m running digiKam 6.3.0 on Windows 10 and the folders (albums) are located
>> > > on both a local hard drive and a locally attached USB drive.
>> > >
>> > > Any solutions or suggestions? Thanks for helping with this inquiry.
>> > >
>> > > Alan
>> > > Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows
>> > > 10
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