[digiKam-users] Albums on USB disk disappearing if disk gets disconnected & I do refresh

[Luca Casone]

Hi Maik.
Thank you. Yes I’ll do that way, I’ll put my SSD as network shared, I already verify it works.

Bye
Luca

> Il giorno 30 set 2022, alle ore 21:25, Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> ha scritto:
> 
> Yes, we use the KF5 Solid API to get drive information. Unfortunately, this is 
> not fully supported in macOS. We don't get events when a drive goes offline/
> online. I seem to recall that since macOS doesn't readily provide the 
> information, it's hard to implement?
> Try adding the drive as a network drive, we've built in an extra check to see 
> if it's there. You can easily change an existing removable drive collection to 
> a network collection with the update button (round circle).
> 
> Maik
> 
> Am Freitag, 30. September 2022, 14:38:38 CEST schrieb Luca Casone:
>> Hi folks.
>> 
>> I'm starting looking at DigiKam, and I'm facing a behavior for which I need
>> support.
>> 
>> I'm on MacOS. My photos are on an USB SSD that I plug into the laptop when
>> I need to work on them. I set this disk as removable folder in the DigiKam
>> settings.
>> 
>> Well, if I unplug the disk and trigger a refresh on an album living on it,
>> the whole collection disappears from the DigiKam's album pane, and in no
>> way I can recover it even if I relaunch DigiKam with the SSD plugged in.
>> I've to turn back to the settings and re-link the USB as removable folder;
>> but now DigiKam starts scanning the driver from scratch, as if the driver
>> hasn't been never connected.
>> 
>> Honestly, it's quite dangerous: I can hopelessly lose the entire scan just
>> triggering a refresh forgetting the driver is disconnected, and I've to
>> wait (once again, a lot of time) for a new whole scan to finish.
>> The only workaround I found so far is to set the removable disk as network
>> shared folder... but it's seems strange to me.
>> 
>> Is it the intended behavior? Or am I missing something?
>> 
>> Thank you for the support.
>> 
>> Bye
>> Luca
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