Collections are suddenly gone in DK

[Thomas]

Hi,


This is Apple Silicon M3.

MacOS version 15.6.1.

The volumes are mounted. I can ls the contents from a terminal and I can 
open the images int he Finder file browser.

I will check Apple Console app although, I am not sure what to look for?


BR

Thomas



On 14/09/2025 04.06, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Right it's MacOS. Which version ? Arm or Intel.
>
> Perhaps the disk is unmounted by the system ? Did you see something
> abnormal in the system log (Apple Console Application)?
>
> Best regards
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> Le sam. 13 sept. 2025 à 14:57, Thomas <sdktda at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>
>> On 12/09/2025 17.52, Gilles Caulier wrote:
>>
>> I'm 99% sure that something in your Windows installation locks the
>> database or the application or the file system. This introduces giant
>> time latency in the program. This can be the Windows update running in
>> background, an antivirus, or a malfunction with your hardware.
>>
>> Another issue can be the file path scheme name in your collection
>> which cause dysfunction, eg. no latin1 char encoding for ex, even if
>> digiKam supports UTF8 and the application manifest for Windows sets
>> these properties at run time.
>>
>> In my office we switch from WIN10 to WIN11 progressively on all
>> desktop computers, and we sometimes see troubles with file paths when
>> we use company applications (where WIN10 has no problem for a very
>> long time). This is difficult to investigate and to reproduce. This is
>> especially true with the network file systems but not with all users.
>> The reason is not clear...
>>
>>
>> This is macOS - not Windows.
>>
>> I don't think something is locking my files and I have tried over multiple restarts.
>>
>> I will try to see if I can figure out how to see which files are locked on macOS.
>>
>> There is no antivirus.
>>
>>
>> Also, all files on this file system should be plain ascii compatible as I ensure files only have names in the set "A-Za-z0-9._, -()+"
>>
>>
>> Any ideas how to troubleshoot this further?
>>
>>