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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 121005] digikam won´t start when the album-path stays on nfs-volume
From:       Micron Gust <microngust () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2007-03-31 19:05:00
Message-ID: 20070331190500.16271.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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------- Additional Comments From microngust hotmail com  2007-03-31 21:04 -------
=digiKam and CIFS/SAMBA/NFS Solution=

Here's a workaround that makes digiKam store pictures on a network folder and it's database on a local \
drive.

==Background==
When you specify that digiKam should store pictures on a network folder (CIFS/SAMBA or NFS), digiKam will \
hang. If you try restarting digiKam, there will be no visual feedback. This is a workaround that will \
allow you to have digiKam store pictures on a network folder.

==Configuration Cleanup==
First, if you've already run digiKam and it has hung (or done nothing) you must do the following to clean \
up the corrupt digiKam configuration:

1. Verify that digiKam is not still running. If it's running, kill it off. (The digiKam process may be \
running even if you don't see digiKam on your desktop. Use the "ps" and "kill" commands to verify and \
kill off the process, or, simply bring up KDE System Guard, find the digiKam process, and, kill it.)

2. Delete your digiKam config file, located at: ~/.kde/share/config/digikamrc

3. Go to the folder you specified as the "Albums Library Folder" and delete the two files that digiKam \
created: "digikam3.db" and "digikam3.db-journal".

==The Workaround==
Now you can re-configure digiKam from a fresh start as follows:

1. Start digiKam.

2. When prompted for the "Albums Library Folder", specify a local folder (eg ~/.digiKam).

3. Through Konqueror, navigate to a network folder where you want to store pictures. (I'll refer to this \
as your "network pictures folder".)

4. Create a symlink from the digikam3.db file, which digiKam created in your local "Albums Library \
Folder", to your network pictures folder.

5. In digiKam, go to the "Settings" menu and select "Configure digiKam ...".

6. In the "Configure - digiKam" dialog, select "Albums" and then change the "Album Library Path" to your \
network pictures folder.

==Conclusion==
Now digiKam should save pictures to your network pictures folder and it should save to the database on \
your local drive.


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