[digiKam-users] Digikam 7.0 & 7.1 won't load past the flash screen

[Maik Qualmann]

The log contains many messages from other programs, but little from digiKam, 
because the debug output is not active. The environment variable must be set.

But please remove this file as a test: C:/Users/Kent/Pictures/Family Tree/Dick 
Ja 599-03.jpg

Maik

Am Donnerstag, 31. Dezember 2020, 07:20:59 CET schrieb Kent Dutton:
> Hello Gilles
> I have run the Debug View and have attached a file, hopes this is what you
> need.
> Not sure what or where I am supposed to do this:
> 
> On Windows, application text output is not sent to the terminal. You need
> to install DebugView tool
> <http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896647.aspx> to capture
> text traces generated by digiKam.
> 
> Before to start digiKam and DebugView, from your Windows System Info panel,
> add a new user variable with these criteria:
> 
>     name: "QT_LOGGING_RULES"
>     value: "digikam*=true"
> 
> Kent Dutton
> 
> 
> On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 at 09:57, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
> 
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Under Windows we need an extra tool from Microsoft to get extra debug
> > traces while digiKam run : DebugView.
> > 
> > Look more details at this page :
> > 
> > https://www.digikam.org/contribute/
> > 
> > Best
> > 
> > Gilles Caulier
> > 
> > Le mer. 30 déc. 2020 à 21:12, Kent Dutton <kent.m.dutton at gmail.com> a
> > 
> > écrit :
> > > I have just installed Digikam 7.1 on a Windows 10 PC. It will not get
> > 
> > past the splash screen, loading tools.
> > 
> > > As a user, not a programmer, I have not been able to find any help with
> > 
> > my online searches.
> > 
> > > I have re-installed version 6.1 and that will still work.
> > > I look forward to any help you can suggest. I am sorry if this is the
> > 
> > wrong place to ask for this help but it seems to be my last resort
> > 
> > > Kent Dutton