Digikam Broke After KDE Update

***bob*** · #1 6th February 2006, 02:15 PM

I've found that after the KDE update the other day, Digikam is working but won't accept any new photos or create any new albums. Attempting to overwrite existing photos returns:
"Access denied. Could not write to digikamalbums://%2Fhome%2Fbob%2Pictures@/New%20Year%202006/dscn0349.jpg"
These pics are maintained in my /home/bob directory and I can paste new photos into the correct folders in this directory but they won't appear when viewed with DigiKam.

It would seem to be a permissions error, however I tried 'chmod 777 /usr/bin/digikam' and still doesn't work. Also tried uninstalling and reinstalling, still no joy. Funny thing is that I can modify existing photos (adding text, etc.) and the photos in my /home/bob directory are then modified. I've tried to use the Digikam Handbook, but it has no entries, although the Kipi Plugins handbook is fine.

Any suggestions?

***bob*** · #2 7th February 2006, 01:20 PM

*bump* Well, let's see if there are any DigiKam people out there today. No progress on this end, BTW.

homey · #3 7th February 2006, 02:21 PM

I don't know why the kde update caused problems with digikam as it didn't on my FC4 box.
Maybe, clearing out a few things would help. In my case, using kde, I tried this for you to see if it works.
Remove the hidden folder in your home directory ~/.kde/share/apps/digikam
Move any pics from the ~/Pictures and remove that folder.

Start digikam and see if that helps.

***bob*** · #4 7th February 2006, 02:47 PM

Thanks for responding. Well, tried that but still no difference. Remove and Install again, no change. Can't overwrite existing pics and additional ones are marked 'This Picture Isn't Stored On Local Host. Click This Label To Load It' - which does nothing. I've filed a bug report with KDE through DigiKam's website on this and hope that there's some resolution. Of course, there's always FC-5 coming soon....

homey · #5 7th February 2006, 03:20 PM

rpm -qa | grep digikam
digikam-0.8.1-1.fc5

Yep, when fc5 comes out of beta, that maybe just the ticket.
I think it rocks already!

***bob*** · #6 7th March 2006, 09:21 PM

Just to finish off the thread - bugzilla was able to point me in the right direction today and it turned out that permissions had been changed somehow in some of my /home directories pertaining to the photos. A simple 'chmod -R 777' on the /pictures and it all works.