is there any hope for a solution to my problem?

[gene heskett]

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.
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