Bug 380289

Summary:	Cannot write to Albums residing on NFS
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	Klemens Dickbauer <klemens.dickbauer>
Component:	Albums-MainView	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	metzpinguin
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.4.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Kubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	6.0.0
Attachments:	Encoded location path problem

Description Klemens Dickbauer 2017-05-28 20:37:53 UTC

I can access the Albums residing on an NFS share, digiKam shows the content of all those. But when moving an image to such an Album, or creating a new Album there, I get an error "Das Album XYZ existiert nicht mehr" (msgid "Album %1 does not exist anymore")

.) I can write to the according folder in the shell.
.) digiKam still can write to Albums residing on the local fs.
.) The folder/file names are withour special characters.
.) It worked for the same Albums/Folders about 1 month ago.
.) The messages in the shell look unsuspicious:
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digikam.general: Using  4  CPU core to run threads
digikam.general: Action Thread run  1  new jobs
digikam.general: Event is dispatched through a passive pop-up
QLayout: Attempting to add QLayout "" to QWidget "", which already has a layout
digikam.iojob: Thread Finished
digikam.general: One job is done
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Comment 1 Maik Qualmann 2017-06-08 19:50:12 UTC

There is no error message in the output. Can you post more of the console output? I also do not think that we have changed anything in the last time. Please try the latest beta AppImage for testing from www.digikam.org.

Maik

Comment 2 Klemens Dickbauer 2017-06-08 22:34:30 UTC

Created attachment 106003 [details]
Encoded location path problem

Comment 3 Klemens Dickbauer 2017-06-08 22:34:46 UTC

Thanks for the comment. I logged all output from startup and viewing it I found the problematic symptom early in the startup logs:
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digikam.database: location for  "%2Fdata%2Fmaccheroni%2Fpic"  is available  false
digikam.database: location for  "/home/kdi/Bilder"  is available  true
digikam.database: location for  "/data/local/Bilder"  is available  true
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So it seems that for whatever reason by whatever process the path to the location has been URL encoded or something similar.
When looking into digikam's settings I could confirm it (I seemed to have overlooked that issue before). So for correction I created the same location again (see screenshot) and deleted the old one. Now it took about 3hrs to scan the folder again (I hope the local database has not lost any information), but it works.

You can close the ticket, but I don't know, maybe it's worth the effort to find out what caused the path encoding, and maybe there is a more efficient way to fix it than to re-create the new location.

Comment 4 Maik Qualmann 2018-04-15 10:29:33 UTC

The wrong path came through the update from digiKam-4.x to digiKam-5.x. I close the bug report now.

Maik