Bug 508464 - Album marked as not available although it is available
Summary: Album marked as not available although it is available
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: digikam
Classification: Applications
Component: Database-Albums (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 8.7.0
Platform: Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Digikam Developers
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Reported: 2025-08-19 11:56 UTC by Jan van Bekkum
Modified: 2025-08-20 07:00 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Version Fixed/Implemented In: 8.8.0
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Description Jan van Bekkum 2025-08-19 11:56:20 UTC
SUMMARY
One album suddenly was marked as not available, although its folder can be opened in explorer. Creating a new album of the same folder works correctly. Other albums opened correctly.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Start digiKam
2. Try to open album
3. 

OBSERVED RESULT
Error message that storage location is not available

EXPECTED RESULT
Opening of album

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows:  10
macOS: 
(available in the Info Center app, or by running `kinfo` in a terminal window)
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2025-08-19 12:25:06 UTC
What's the kind of collection do you use for this album ? local, removable, network ?
Comment 2 Jan van Bekkum 2025-08-19 12:33:10 UTC
Local network (NAS)
Comment 3 Maik Qualmann 2025-08-19 13:48:16 UTC
By "album," do you mean a standalone digiKam collection? Then you should see a red X icon on the collection's root album.
If you mean an album from an existing collection, it could be due to a file path that's too long. Please install digiKam-8.8.0, which now supports long file paths.

If it's a collection, the partition UUID has probably changed, or you deleted the digiKam UUID file in the .dtrash folder used to identify the collection. Then simply run the update function for the corresponding collection in the digiKam collection settings.

Maik
Comment 4 Jan van Bekkum 2025-08-20 06:47:09 UTC
Thanks for your reply. It concerns a collection. I thought that I had gone through the steps that you recommend, but appparently I made an error. I tried again and now it worked. Sorry for reporting abug that wasn't a bug.