[digiKam-users] Digikam is not finding new items anymore

[r bartlett]

Thank you, sknahT, for the suggestion -- that was actually the first thing I thought of and unfortunately it didn't work.  HOWEVER, when I squinted, in 7.4.0 there's a small, easy-to-miss-and-without-tooltip icon next to the "Delete" button in the Root directory settings Removable Drives section...and lo and behold...that was the magic button.  When I clicked, it let me redirect the "images" folder to a new path.  All my folder info (including the image thumbnails) was retained, and I saw my newly added images showing up again.  Such a huge relief.
Thank you all for the help and suggestions.  I'm in good shape now, and appreciate this amazing program and its developers.  Will make a contribution shortly. 

Very best, and happy New Year!



   On Sunday, January 2, 2022, 03:21:11 PM EST, digikam at 911networks.com <digikam at 911networks.com> wrote:  
 
 On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 17:20:52 +0000 (UTC)
r bartlett <techwritebos at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  Thank you, @sknahT.  The problem is that the new external hard
> drive is already in place, so 6.4.0 isn't seeing any files
> anymore...because the path has changed.  The files are now all in a
> different spot. 

That's not a problem is Linux, just create a symlink from the new
path to the old path and the OS will deal with it.

That's what I did for my external driveS (I have drive-a, drive-b,
and drive-c):

sudo ln -s /media/froggy/drive-b/  /run/media/froggy/drive-b/ 

then you can check it with:

readlink /run/media/froggy/drive-b/ 
        /media/froggy/drive-b/

-- 
sknahT

vyS
  
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