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

[Eileen M. Gloster]

Thank you for your reply. I hope the following info may help.

I am using digi version 7.2.0

Since I emailed, I removed all the collections I had imported, and tried
again adding just my Pictures folder.  I left the database location alone.

When I open digiKam, I still can not move or delete the photos in the
picture folder, but I can still move or delete the few pictures that
somehow are still in my digi-kam database holder.  I am including a
screenshots of my collection location, database settings from digikam, and
my filI do not know how to determine if I located my database files in a
fast location.

Also, when I tried to update to the new version, I got an error message
from the server: not found.

On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 2:01 AM Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
>
>
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