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

[Maik Qualmann]

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