[digiKam-users] The woes of a Windows 10 digikam newbie user

[The Man in Black]

 "1. Close DK 2. unplug you camera 3. Open file explorer 4. Plug in your camera. What happens?"
On plugging my camera and turning it on Windows file explorer pops up.It shows my camera as as a separate drive that has been mounted under This PC.And it shows me the two (removable storage) "folders" (on that "drive" i.e. the camera) that correspond to the two cards I have on the camera, namely one for jpeg and the other for raw.
That has not been a problem for me ever.Neither has it been problematic for me to COPY the images in those "folders" to folders on my computer drive, e.g., mm/dd/yy/jpeg and mm/dd/yy/raw.I can process the images in those files via RT or darktable or gimp, should I need to.
If I were to fire up Nikon ViewNX2 app I can hit the "Transfer" button and TRANSFER the images from the camera to the computer's drive.
I' ve worked with the set of dialog boxes Rob Dueckman posted in trying to get digiKam to see my camera.In the Camera Configuration dialog box if I select the USB option, nothing happens.If I instead select "Camera Mounty Path" (whose default entry is \mnt\camera) and hit Browse I see "My Computer" and "user".It does NOT show me, and I don't know how to get to, "This PC" which should have the D800E drive under it (as seen in Windows Explorer).
My intent and expectation with digiKam is to:a) import the images from the camera (as fast as or faster than Nikon ViewNX2)b) do a quick review of the images and flag them as acceptable, pending, or rejectedc) delete the rejectedd) move/copy the acceptable and pending to appropriate directors on the system so I can post-process using RT or darktable.
Unfortunately I'm stuck at the starting line.Yes, screen grabs make sense...For something as elementary as what I'm describing, I don't know if screen grabs are that much more informative than what I'm describing.
    On Saturday, February 20, 2021, 11:43:44 AM PST, <digikam at 911networks.com> wrote:  
 
 On Sat, 20 Feb 2021 18:35:10 +0000 (UTC)
The Man in Black <kolam72002 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I suppose there are few Windows users of digiKam, most being
> *nix.Otherwise these glitches, in one's face and glaring and
> obvious, would have been noticed and fixed by the community
> already. 

The problem is that you do not provide much information and we are
supposed to guess what you are doing.

1. Close DK
2. unplug you camera
3. Open file explorer
4. Plug in your camera

What happens?

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