After upgrade cannot open external drive

[William Allen]

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.