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

Tue Oct 19 20:47:37 BST 2021

Apart from the DPI settings, the font size of the tree views can also be set 
in the digiKam Setup under View-> Tree view.

Maik

Am Dienstag, 19. Oktober 2021, 19:39:20 CEST schrieben Sie:
> That is really a very small font. Could it be that you are using a screen
> scaling >100% in Windows? Then you have to activate the option to adjust the
> DPI settings to the screen factor in the digiKam setup under
> Miscellaneous-> System.
> 
> Maik
> 
> Am Samstag, 16. Oktober 2021, 19:31:21 CEST schrieb Hal Marietta:
> >  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
> > > 
> >      On Friday, October 15, 2021, 04:19:33 AM EDT,
> > 
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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)
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I pushed a news item
> > > (https://staging.digikam.org/news/2021-10-13_digikam_recipes_21.10.15_re
> > > le
> > > ased) 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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