I made a mistake this morning

[gene heskett]

On 7/16/23 13:14, gene heskett wrote:
Addendum below
> And now digiKam no longer has write perms to anyplace on my system, 
> claiming an album I created last week and can see the thumbnails of, is 
> not available.
> 
> This is the June 29 version of 8.1.0-beta.
> Dl'd, ran 8.2.0
> 
> still can't download what I can see in the import window, highlighted as 
> new, getting this msg regardless of the selected target including a 
> newly created one:
> 
> I even picked a subdir and moved it to another newly created ~/Photos 
> just so it would be created and copied using bookworm rules, still 
> cannot download from the camera, exactly as if I don't own this whole 
> filesystem.
> 
> Collection which host your default target album set to process download 
> from camera device is not available. Please select another one from 
> camera configuration dialog.
> 
> This is meaningless to me without the specifics. Full paths from / please.
> 
> Whats going on?????

I found shotwell, which is 10,000% more monkey business & 40+ more mouse 
clicks to download 3 new images from my camera, and while it's PITA to 
use, worked flawleessly. Please make digiKam compatible with 
bullseye/bookworm ext4 file systems.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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