[digiKam-users] How to interpret DigiKam error message when connecting to camera

[Mick Sulley]

You do need to dismount the camera.  I also run DK in Mint, when I plug 
the camera in I get a pop-up box asking what to do, open as folder, open 
with something else, etc, and there is an 'Unmount' button as well, 
click this and DK should allow the import. Alternatively if it is 
already mounted click on the up arrow to the right of the camera name in 
file explorer.

Hope that helps.  Having to dismount to import did seem a bit odd to me 
as well:)

Mick

On 27/06/2020 00:06, tony Hamilton wrote:
> I'm new to Digikam. I'm trying to ingest images into DK under linux 
> Mint 19.3 from my USB connected Fujifilm X-T20. The camera is 
> correctly identified by DK, but an error message says DK cannot 
> connect to the camera and asks me to make sure the camera is connected 
> properly and switched on. I believe that both of these requirements 
> are met because other apps. (XnView, Rapid Photo Downloader, Mint file 
> explorer) can read the camera SD card. The error message is 
> misleading, possibly wrong. How do I make DigiKam present the real 
> problem it is having, so that I can ingest images from the camera?
>
> Under windows, on another computer, DK is unable to detect the camera 
> and I don't understand the settings to be entered to manually identify 
> the camera to DK. How to I set these parameters?
>