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

[Kent Dutton]

Hello Gilles
Thank you very much for that.
I will get that setup over the weekend and try again for you.

Kent Dutton


On Sat, 2 Jan 2021 at 05:15, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Kent
>
> Happy new year.
>
> On operating systems such as Linux, macOS and Windows, it's possible to
> set up environment variables (strings tuple) to tune features at run time.
> This is the case to activate verbose debug trace from digiKam.
>
> These env.var do not exist on your computer. You just need to append these
> variables on the list from the Windows computer properties panel. An
> example is given here, for assigning PATH variable :
>
> https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000549.htm
>
> This is exactly the same way to do for digiKam variables.
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
>
> Le jeu. 31 déc. 2020 à 22:01, Kent Dutton <kent.m.dutton at gmail.com> a
> écrit :
>
>> Hello
>>
>> I have changed the file and removed it.
>>
>> I'm sorry I do not understand what you mean by:
>>
>>
>> *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.  *
>>
>>
>>
>> I do not understand:
>>
>> 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"
>>
>> I have uninstalled then re-installed version 7.1 with no luck, I have
>> re-installed version 6.1 and it works, I have attached another debugger
>> file for you.
>>
>> Kent Dutton
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 at 18:12, Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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