[digiKam-users] Digikam 7.8.0 doesn't update thumbnails and folders

[Gilles Caulier]

AppImage install nothing on your system. It's a bundle, including all
in place. It's a single executable to run, it decompress all
dependencies in memory, and... that all. digiKam work as expected.

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le mar. 11 oct. 2022 à 16:24, Chris Deuchar <deuchars at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> Thanks for this. I will have a look at those.  However, I am still unclear why I appear to have two versions running?
> Are these running at the same time when I click the icon?
> If so, is this causing the problem with my thumbnails?
> If I install the Appimage bundle will this sort out the other two - or merely make things worse?
>
> TIA, Chris
>
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2022 at 09:53, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> You can try the AppImage bundle that we support instead Snap :
>>
>> https://files.kde.org/digikam/
>>
>> It's simple to use :
>> https://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/kde-applicationdata/digikam/README
>>
>> Gilles Caulier
>>
>> Le mar. 11 oct. 2022 à 10:43, Chris Deuchar <deuchars at gmail.com> a écrit :
>> >
>> > The most recent update was done via Ubuntu's 'Software' application - which I think is the snap version?  As were the preceding updates as far as I can remember.
>> > (Please excuse me as I only moved to linux 18 months ago and I am still getting my head round some things. Previously I was brought up in the 'wonderful world of DOS' before moving on to Windows-1...etc !)
>> > However, back in Ubuntuland, having previously been advised to use Synaptic package manager, a search in there reveals the digikam version as 7.5.0! - with no mention of the 7.8.0 that actually runs.
>> > What the?
>> >
>> > Chris
>> >
>> > On Tue, 11 Oct 2022 at 09:33, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> Did you use Flatpak packaging on your system to install digiKam ? How
>> >> did you update the application ?
>> >>
>> >> Gilles Caulier
>> >>
>> >> Le mar. 11 oct. 2022 à 10:29, Chris Deuchar <deuchars at gmail.com> a écrit :
>> >> >
>> >> > Hi Gilles, I use JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIF, & PCX primarily - all except the latter previously displayed correctly - as did previews for MP4, WAV and others.  It is only since the update to 7.8.0 from 7.7.0 that this problem has arisen.
>> >> >
>> >> > Chris
>> >> >
>> >> > On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 at 15:38, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Hi,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Which kind of file type mime gives this behavior ? JPEG, PNG, TIFF,
>> >> >> HEIF, etc ???
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Best
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Gilles Caulier
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Le lun. 10 oct. 2022 à 16:31, Chris Deuchar <deuchars at gmail.com> a écrit :
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Hi, I have been using Digikam for a few years, and through several versions, initially in Win7 but now in Ubuntu 22.04.  However, following the update from 7.7.0 to 7.8.0, I can no longer get the thumbnails and folders to update.  I have tried database cleaning (8 hours) and thumbnail rebuilding (16 hours) but all I seem to have achieved is replacing those thumbnails that were there with the default icons!
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > I use this program a lot for producing html albums (which I can still do in showfoto 7.5.0 - but it is a rather more cumbersome to navigate) so I would like to get Digikam working properly again.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Alternatively, if I can back track to version 7.7.0 then I will do that if someone can point me at a source.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > TIA, Chris