[digiKam-users] New user can't move or delete files from new folder locations

[Maik Qualmann]

Which digiKam version do you use exactly? Problems with deleting or moving are 
possible under Windows if the image folders are part of a network share or are 
opened by other external programs. The image foldesr should be in your user 
directory. Problems can arise on the system drive C:\ outside of the user 
directory because digiKam is not a signed app. 

Maik

Am Donnerstag, 15. Juli 2021, 15:14:03 CEST schrieb Eileen M. Gloster:
> Greetings,
> 
> I am a new used who installed digiKam on Windows  10 OS build 19042.1110 a
> few days ago.  (I have not updated with the newest release.) My only open
> source background is as an OpenOffice user, so I may be in over my head,
> but I really like the metadata features of digikam and hope to get this
> working.
> 
> I installed digikam and initially loaded a single folder with a few photos
> from my harddrive into digikam, and DigiKam worked fine. I can use digikam
> to edit, move and delete files from that folder.  That folder also is
> where the three database files went.
> 
> Since that worked well, I went back to configure settings to add
> collections, and clicked on my folder labeled  PICTUREs, which has many
> subfolders.  The files loaded, and they can be edited. But I can not
> rename, move or delete these files. I did not see any directions about
> creating a new location for any new database files, so I did not address
> that.  I do not see any new database files. I had assumed the original
> database file would just get bigger -- but those database files are inside
> the folder with the first group of photos -- the only ones I can move and
> delete.
> 
> I thought perhaps I had loaded too many photos, so I tried again and added
> a third location in a  new folder with a much smaller group of photos the
> same thing happened. I can not move or delete those either, but I can edit
> them.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions? I could start over, but I don't want to
> muck things up further.
> 
> I use Windows 10 OS build 19042.1110
> 
> Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4570 CPU @ 3.20GHz   3.20 GHz
> 
> Thank you for any help you can give,
> Eileen Gloster