[digiKam-users] Digikam-users Digest, Vol 197, Issue 17

Sat Oct 16 18:31:21 BST 2021

 I found the font setting and fixed the menu items and side bars, but the album tree and the image captions weren't affected. I attached a screenshot to illustrate.

Thanks,
Hal

The font size of the tags view and the menu items can be set in the digiKam
setup.

Maik

Am Dienstag, 12. Oktober 2021, 20:29:55 CEST schrieb Hal Marietta:
> I'm running Windows and the latest version of DigiKam and it is unusable on
> this computer. All the labels, menu items, everything text is so small i
> cant read it. It is fine on my laptop but I really want to use it on my
> desktop as it has more resources. Any ideas? I've tried several of the
> settings, like use system font, but with no success.
>
> Hal
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Today's Topics:

  1.  Moving / Sharing collection between external HD and internal
      HD (Kenneth Parkes)
  2.  Can not send / delete files to trash (Torstein Hall)
  3. Re:  Can not send / delete files to trash (Maik Qualmann)
  4. Re:  Font in Windows too small to read (Maik Qualmann)
  5. Re:  Moving / Sharing collection between external HD and
      internal HD (Daniel Bauer)
  6.  digikam.org not updated (Dmitri Popov)
  7. Re:  digikam.org not updated (Dmitri Popov)

Hi Waren,

I assume your external drive has a USB plug. Connect it to your
desktop. Open a terminal and type [sudo apt-get install gparted]
without the brackets. Gparted will be in Administration.  Open it and
it will show your internal partitions and the partitions on your
external drive, the latter probably as /dev/sdb "some number". Right
click on the partition with your photos and left click on Information.
A display will tell you if it is mounted. If not go to the terminal and
type  [ sudo mount /dev/sdb"some number"  /media ].  Now open Home on
the monitor, click on Filesystem and then on Media.  If you have just
built a new bottom-of-the-range machine as I have it will take a few
minutes for 40.000 photos to display or their containers. Now use
Import in digikam to copy the photos onto the Pictures directory of the
internal drive or any other directory you care to nominate.

When you are travelling you can sync desktop and laptop by setting up
SSH on both machines before you leave.  SSH is a protocol for secure
connections between machines and you can connect over the internet.
Just type SSH linux into a browser and be prepared for a long read.

Hope this helps,  Ken

After moving my Digikam database and program to a new PC with Windows 11have a strange problem occurred. It started with my directory where my photos are stored suddenly was write protected in windows.  That problem was not fixable anywhere but from a command line.  (attrib -h  d:\bilder )After that operation all programs  including digikam can delete files directly. 
But I can not move the files to the trash directory in Digikam anymore. I have to delete them with SHIFT / DEL . Thats rather unsafe, they don't end up in system trash, but seems to be deleted for good. 
So if anyone can help me with getting my Trash directory working again, it will be highly appreciated! 

Best regards Torstein

The file rights to the .dtrash folder in your collection will not be correct. 
If the .dtrash folder no longer contains any important files, simply delete 
them, digiKam will create it again the next time a file is deleted.

Maik

Am Donnerstag, 14. Oktober 2021, 21:52:26 CEST schrieb Torstein Hall:
> After moving my Digikam database and program to a new PC with Windows
> 11have a strange problem occurred.
> It started with my directory where my photos are stored suddenly was write
> protected in windows.  That problem was not fixable anywhere but from a
> command line.  (attrib -h  d:\bilder )
> After that operation all programs  including digikam can delete files
> directly.
> 
> But I can not move the files to the trash directory in Digikam anymore. I
> have to delete them with SHIFT / DEL . Thats rather unsafe, they don't end
> up in system trash, but seems to be deleted for good.
> 
> So if anyone can help me with getting my Trash directory working again, it
> will be highly appreciated!
> 
> Best regards Torstein

The font size of the tags view and the menu items can be set in the digiKam 
setup. 

Maik

Am Dienstag, 12. Oktober 2021, 20:29:55 CEST schrieb Hal Marietta:
> I'm running Windows and the latest version of DigiKam and it is unusable on
> this computer.  All the labels, menu items, everything text is so small i
> cant read it.  It is fine on my laptop but I really want to use it on my
> desktop as it has more resources. Any ideas?  I've tried several of the
> settings, like use system font, but with no success.
> 
> Hal

Am 14.10.21 um 03:40 schrieb Warren Baird:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've done a bunch of googling, and have not been able to find any 
> answers for this, so hopefully someone here can help.
> 
> For the past few years I've been using digikam on a laptop (running 
> Linux Mint) to manage a collection on an external HD.   I recently built 
> a desktop PC (also running Linux Mint) that has a big enough internal 
> disk and I'd like to copy the collection from the external drive to the 
> internal drive.
> 
> I found a thread from 2015 talking about moving a collection from one 
> internal disk to another, and it sounds like if you remove the internal 
> disk and add a new disk with the same path, it should 'just work'...  
>   but since it's an external drive I can't figure out how to make that work.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Ideally in fact, I'd like a way to basically 'share' or 'mirror' the 
> collection between the internal and external drives - if I'm travelling 
> (assuming that ever happens again), I'd like to be able to sync the 
> internal drive with the external drive, use it with my laptop during the 
> trip, and then sync all the changes again after the trip...
> 
> Is there any way to achieve that?
> 
> Thanks in advance!!!
> 
> Warren

Hi Warren,

Just to copy (or faster: rsync) the files from external to internal is 
no problem. Just make an albums-root directory in the new computer and 
point to it in the settings of the new digikam (if you also want to copy 
the database files point to the directory when you want to have them in 
digikam settings). Then copy/rsync and images files/folders to that 
rootalbum-folder and database files to their folder. (digikam closed).

It should already work when you open digikam the next time.

----

The bigger problem is syncing, and not because of the image files but 
because of the database(s).

To sync the databases you'd need a database-tool according to the type 
of database you use, and I am not aware that something like this exists 
- it would be a quite complicated tool as it not only would have to sync 
the database entries but also check if the files of the changed entries 
really exist/are removed at/from the given location and many things more.

But you can always add/remove files in the digikam-album while digikam 
is not running, and then let it check the files at start-up (takes some 
time). So you can rsync (with --delete option) the up-to-date-albums to 
the external disk or laptop and reverse.

Of course you will only have tags etc., if you decide to write those 
things into the image files themselves and/or sidecar files.

Always think about backups before doing things like that. It can fastly 
happen that you "update" the newer version to the older instead of the 
reverse. So be careful :-)

It is quite a bit of work and good planning, I don't do it :-) I only 
save the new images in the laptops digikam. At home I simply copy them 
to the desktop.

(I do take some "important" images with me on an external disk. If I 
need one I copy it to the laptop and change size/crop to the given use, 
but I don't change the "desktop-file" on my laptop, so there is nothing 
to sync in my case)
-- 
-- 
Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga
https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer
https://www.daniel-bauer.com

Hello,

I pushed a news item (https://staging.digikam.org/news/2021-10-13_digikam_recipes_21.10.15_released/) to the digikam-org Git repo, and it does appear on staging.digikam.org. But the it has not been pushed to digikam.org. Am I doing something wrong?

Kind regards,
Dmitri
---
Tōkyō Made - https://tokyoma.de/

Hello,

Please disregard my previous email. I've just manually merged dev into master and pushed the changes. I hope it's OK.

Kind regards,
Dmitri
---
Tōkyō Made - https://tokyoma.de

October 15, 2021 8:24 AM, "Dmitri Popov" <dmpop at tokyoma.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I pushed a news item
> (https://staging.digikam.org/news/2021-10-13_digikam_recipes_21.10.15_released) to the digikam-org
> Git repo, and it does appear on staging.digikam.org. But the it has not been pushed to digikam.org.
> Am I doing something wrong?
> 
> Kind regards,
> Dmitri
> ---
> Tōkyō Made - https://tokyoma.de

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