After upgrade cannot open external drive

[Maik Qualmann]

An external drive is not a local drive, but a removable media drive that does 
not always have to be available.
The local drive is basically the boot drive that is always available.
The text is misinterpreted because we use the same dialog as when creating new 
collections. I see I have to define two texts.

Maik

Am Dienstag, 12. Dezember 2023, 17:21:07 CET schrieben Sie:
> I had an update, so I’m getting the dread “storage location is currently not
> available”.
> 
> So, I go to the collection settings and hit the update button. It gives me a
> dialog that has as choices: “Collections on Removable Media”, “Local
> Collections” or “Collections on Network Shares”. Of these, only Local
> Collections seems to make sense so I hit that and it gives me a system file
> dialog. I select the directory the collection is in and it says “Your new
> collection will be created with this name:” and gives the directory I
> selected. Is that right? It doesn’t make sense - I’m not creating a new
> collection, I’m updating it to point at the existing collection.
> On 15 Oct 2023, at 9:43, William Allen wrote:
> > Thanks, I’ll give that a try next time it happens. I have to admit that
> > looking at the doc it wasn’t clear that that was what it did, but I’m
> > glad to know it.> 
> > On 14 Oct 2023, at 11:54, Maik Qualmann wrote:
> >> Editing the database manually is no longer necessary. There is an update
> >> button in the digiKam collection settings. This also updates the current
> >> partition UUID.
> >> 
> >> https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/collections_settings.html
> >> 
> >> Maik
> >> 
> >> Am Samstag, 14. Oktober 2023, 17:34:27 CEST schrieb William Allen:
> >>> You don’t need to do that. The problem is that every time the Mac has
> >>> a system update the uuid of the main drive changes. Why? No idea -
> >>> it’s just the kind of fun apple likes to have with us I guess.
> >>> 
> >>> The solution, as kludgy as it may be is:
> >>> 
> >>> Prerequisites: You need to install sqlite3 to be able to manipulate your
> >>> existing database.
> >>> 
> >>> Steps:
> >>> 
> >>> 1. Run your disk utility program. Note the uuid of the drive. To get it,
> >>> click on the Macintosh HD line, then the uuid is in the lower right
> >>> side.
> >>> 2. Cd into the directory where your digikam.db is located.
> >>> 3. sqlite3 digicam.db
> >>> 4. select identifier from AlbumRoots where id = 1;
> >>> 5. Now you’ll see the value you need to change. You’ve got to make
> >>> the uuid value be what you found in step 1.
> >>> 6. update AlbumRoots set identifier = 'volumeid:?uuid=<value from step
> >>> 1> where id = 1;
> >>> 7. Note that you don’t include the brackets in the above command.
> >>> 
> >>> I’ve been following this process every time. There is a proposed
> >>> solution, but it isn’t yet implemented.
> >>> 
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Bill
> >>> 
> >>> On 13 Oct 2023, at 9:04, Mark Simon wrote:
> >>>> I ended up deleting Digikam and re-installing and building the
> >>>> database from scratch.
> >>>> 
> >>>>> On Oct 13, 2023, at 12:21 AM, Sebastian Beer
> >>>>> <sebastian.beer66 at icloud.com> wrote:
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Did you try removing the collection and re-adding it?
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Sebastian Beer
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> Am 12.10.2023 um 23:57 schrieb Mark Simon
> >>>>>> <mark.simon at sbcglobal.net>:
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> I upgraded Digicam from version 7.x to version 8.1.0 on my mac
> >>>>>> running 12.6.7 Monterey. My database is there but my photos are not.
> >>>>>> In the Preferences under Collections I see my collection listed
> >>>>>> under “Collections on Removable Media” with the right path
> >>>>>> /Volumes/MyDrive/Pictures. When I try to browse the path again I get
> >>>>>> the error “The selected folder does not exist or is not
> >>>>>> readable”. I checked that Digicam has Full Disk Access in Mac
> >>>>>> Security settings.