Is anyone using digikam on Windows? (was: File path in digikam)

[Martin Wolters]

Hi, 

I am still trying to get digikam working. I re-installed all packages with the new installer. Digikam starts nicely, seems to work fine, shows all kipi-plugins, creates databases ... it just does not show a single photo or album. Rescan doesn't seem to do anything. 

Is someone using digikam from 4.3.0 already? What can I do to further debug the system? Should I try an older release branch?

Thanks in advance for your help

-M

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Subject: FIle path in digikam (was: Re: kipi.dll missing in MSVC)
Sent: Sun, 16 Aug 2009
From: Martin Wolters<martin at martinwolters.com>

> Thanks, I tried using c:/tmpPCT but that didn't work either. I also noted
> that many related menu items (such as Import -> Add Images) are greyed out. 
> And I noted that file paths in KDE System Settings -> About me sometimes use
> slash and sometimes use backslash. I believe that other programs (such as
> cygwin) are not tolerant about mixing the two and I am wondering if that
> still could be a hint. Is there a logfile somewhere that I can check? 
>  
> The latest entries in digikamrc are now: 
> Album Path=C:/tmpPct/pictures
> Database File Path=C:/tmpPct
> 
> -M
> 
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> 
> Subject: Re: kipi.dll missing in MSVC
> Sent: Sun, 16 Aug 2009
> From: Eduard Sukharev<kraplax at mail.ru>
> 
> > ? ????????? ?? ??????????? 16 ??????? 2009 13:37:30 ????? Martin Wolters 
> > ???????:
> > > Great,
> > >
> > > digiKam now starts up!! However, it doesn't show pictures yet. I am
> using
> > > the "default" location (e.g. "C:/Documents and Settings/mwolt/My
> > > Documents/My Pictures") for database and pictures. It looks like digikam
> > > did create a database file there as well (digikam4.db and
> > > thumbnails-digikam.db). However, even after Tools -> Scan for new images
> > > there are no images displayed although the folder includes some jpg's.
> > When
> > > playing around I did get a couple times two kind of error messages: One
> > > about the database not being available, another one about the folder
> > would
> > > not exist or would not be readable. However, I was not able to figure
> out
> > > when exactly that occurs.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have some ideas? Am I missing some database driver? Or is
> > there
> > > a trick required with slashes / backslashes / quotation marks. The two
> > > relevant entries in my digikamrc look like as follows:
> > >
> > > Album Path=C:/Documents and Settings/mwolt/My Documents/My Pictures
> > > Database File Path=C:/Documents and Settings/mwolt/My Documents/My
> > Pictures
> > >
> > > -M
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > I'm really not sure if you're missing some library, but just guessing for
> > now 
> > - try to setup digikam so that database would be in different directory.
> As
> > i 
> > remeber there were, and maybe still are, some issues with rights on
> Windows
> > in 
> > some directories (namely C:\, C:\Windows and user "home dir" -
> C:\Documents
> > 
> > and settings\<Username>\). This bug might have been fixed already, but you
> > may 
> > still try. Also try to change the album path.
> > -- 
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Eduard
> > 
> 
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> 
> 

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