[digiKam-users] collections: removable media collection got re-marked as a local collection

[Maik Qualmann]

Yes, we have an older bug report. We use the KF5 Solid API for these things. 
With a symlink, I could imagine that Solid would then see a local file system 
instead of the removable medium.

Maik

Am Samstag, 23. Mai 2020, 05:40:54 CEST schrieb Peter Teuben:
> is this a known bug that collections marked as removable can become local?
> 
> 
> I decided to make a symlink in /Photos to a removable media link, and
> marked it as being on removable media.
> 
> But after some reboot, logout or new instance of digikam , it decided
> this album was going to on local media. This is bad for me. The next
> thing that happens is that it got removed, and now it has to rebuild the
> whole database data, which takes forever in my case, perhaps 100k images.
> 
> I'm going to try and re-mark them, otherwise I run the risk again that
> when I forget to mount that drive and I start digikam, it's game over
> again.  Could also cheat and use sqlitebrowser to edit the "type" field
> in the AlbumRoots.
> 
> Isn't this a bug to change its mind on what's Local and Removable???
> 
> - peter