[digikam] [Bug 470556] New: Collection Storage Location Unavailable Mac

[Geoff King]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470556

            Bug ID: 470556
           Summary: Collection Storage Location Unavailable Mac
    Classification: Applications
           Product: digikam
           Version: 8.0.0
          Platform: macOS (DMG)
                OS: macOS
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: digikam-bugs-null at kde.org
          Reporter: gsking1 at gmail.com
  Target Milestone: ---

Hello, 
On my Mac (Air M2. Ventura 13.2) I am loosing the collection settings
occasionally. 
>From Thumbnails double clicking the image shows: "The storage location of this
image is currently not available".  
This has been going on for at least several months, and prior 7.x versions also
I think.  It will keep the collection settings for maybe a month or more.  I'm
guessing it may be due to updates being applied by Apple (maybe going from 13.3
to 13.4? and similar with prior versions) since it doesn't happen very often.  
When this happens, workaround is to go into Collection Settings and re-select
the Collections.  

In this case today, the folder selected for "Local Collections" was okay. 
What wasn't connecting was the two folders I had listed under "Collections on
Removable Media".  These are two separate folders on the same external SSD
drive.  I keep this drive connected 98% of the time.  Click the refresh button
and re-assign those drives and all is good for another month or so.  

One thing I thought to try afterwards was to disconnect and re-connect that
drive instead of rescanning - can try that next time it happens,  but the drive
seems to work fine in finder and other apps.  

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1.  No known steps, just happens periodically.  Maybe every month or so. 
2. 

OBSERVED RESULT
"The storage location of this image is currently not available".  

EXPECTED RESULT
Don't want images to lose the link to their locations on the disk. 

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
macOS: 13.4
KDE Plasma Version: 
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.104.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8

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