is there any hope for a solution to my problem?

[gene heskett]

On 8/1/23 15:07, gene heskett wrote:
> On 7/27/23 02:04, Maik Qualmann wrote:
>>> I just found it, its a square outline only and its invisible until the
>>> mouse pointer is well centered on it, no damn wonder I could not find it
>>> from your description of a round button next to the trash can icon. Now
>>> lets see if it works.
>>
>> Have you installed the Breeze Icon theme and activated it in the digiKam
>> settings?
>>
>>> When I click on update with Pictures highlited, it opens a requestor and
>>> looks like I have to do it one subdir at a time, probably over 200 times
>>> for all of it, why can't I just do the whole thing in one swell foop?
>>
>> You have created 200 collections? You added all subdirectories as 
>> collections,
>> seriously?
> 
> no, just updated the path, to both Pictures and Photos, supposedly the 
> uuid of the raid, but it made no difference. At the end of an attempt to 
> import 4 pix from the camera, the png you've seen pops up again. I've 
> attached it.
> 
> There is also a pair of digikam.db files. one dated in 2021 and one just 
> this morning of 450k and 5.5 megs named digikam3.db and digikam4.db
> I've also attached an image digiKam can't display, its been shrunk by 
> gimp to emailable size, sorta, 540+ kilobytes. s/b the bottom of a two 
> trees Sapphire-5 3d printer.  That would be saved by bullseye, only a 
> month or so old.
> 
>> Sorry, start digiKam from scratch with a new database and 
>> configuration and
>> familiarize yourself with the digiKam collection idea.
>>
>> https://docs.digikam.org/en/getting_started.html
>> https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/collections_settings.html
> 
> Bookmarked, but reading the bookmark is so different from what I'm 
> seeing and what I'm doing seems to be being ignored, as if digiKam has 
> no write perms to save anything.
> 
>> With your other error messages, it is not possible to say without 
>> having a
>> sample image whether these images are defective or what the problem 
>> is. I'm
>> out of here now.
>>
>> Maik
>>
>>
>> .
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett.
My apologies, I must have posted 2 pix, the other one is the bottom of 
my 2 trees sp-5 printer.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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