Version: 0.9.2 (using KDE KDE 3.5.7) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages OS: Linux Hello, I have stored about 24.000 Pictures on an external USB-Disk because the internal HD is too small. The Bug: Sometimes when I start digikam it happens that the USB-Disk is not mounted or switched off. But if i insert a card while USB-Disk is not mounted digikam says that it can only start when i erase the database. I accidentialy said ok. So all my keywords were lost afther digikam had rebuilt the database when USB-Disk was remounted... I except this Behaviour: Digikam recognizes that USB-Disk is not connected. Digikam stores the Photos in a temporarily folder. When restarting digikam - it moves / copies (I wish to have a choice here) the Photos from the temporarily folder(e.g. /home/user/pictures/temp/) to the default location (e.g. /USB-Disk/photos/). Comment: This behaviour is very useful when USB-Disk is for a period of time not available. (e.g. a yourney where I use only the Notebook without the need of carrying external devices)
See these related wishes: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103201 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107871 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125474 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126821 Not sure, whether the current one there qualifies as a duplicated of any of these... Andreas, could you have a look and comment here (or at any of the above, if it makes sense). General remarks: I would always recommend to have also the root directory of digikams images on the external disk (which includes the database file digikam3.db). Then you could write a small wrapper script, which checks, whether the USB disk is mounted and only then really start digikam. In addition, of course the general statement about a backup of all images applies (I know this does not help anymore if the whole database is gone; very annoying, I perfectly understand!). Best, Arnd
Checking for availability of album roots (with that, multiple album roots of course) will come with the KDE4 version of digikam - it is only possible with help of the new "Solid" API.
In my opinion this is in spirit a duplicate of bug 126821. Andreas, could you please add any missing thoughts of your report in that bug. Thanks a lot, Arnd *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 126821 ***
Not reproducible using digiKam 7.0.0 beta1.