https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452299
Bug ID: 452299
Summary: Full album re-scan required if root folder temporarily
unavailable
Product: digikam
Version: 7.3.0
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: minor
Priority: NOR
Component: Database-Scan
Assignee: digikam-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: ja...@lab6.com
Target Milestone: ---
My root album folder is made available by way of a mount command. Normally,
this works just fine - Digikam sees it as a normal directory (and indeed, it is
a normal directory). Today, my storage system experienced a temporary failure
which caused the underlying storage volume not to mount, leaving an empty
directory at the mount point. I started Digikam, and it immediately noticed
that the root directory was empty, and reported that I had zero photos.
I resolved the underlying issue with the mount point, ran the mount command,
and restarted Digikam.
Digikam is now re-scanning all the files under this directory.
This wouldn't be a problem, except for the fact that I have hundreds of
thousands of photos, and so this process is going to take hours.
I believe Digikam should be able to recognise an empty root folder as an error
state (if it previously had contents), and warn the user before proceeding, in
order to give the user the opportunity to resolve the issue.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Start Digikam with one of the previously-non-empty root album folders being
empty
OBSERVED RESULT
1. Digikam starts the "Find new items" process.
EXPECTED RESULT
1. Digikam recognizes that it was expecting to find files, and warns the user
that they are not present, before doing anything else.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Build date: 10/07/2021 17:12 (target: RelWithDebInfo)
Rev.: 206597cbfed3946264f9babebd666538fb2ff326
(installed from AppImage)
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