digiKam 0.9.4 network storage

DigiKam currently doesn't support loading files from network storage (like Samba, NFS). Hopefully this will be soon fixed but until then we can bypass this way.

Firstly if you had already specified a network folder and now digiKam doesn't work you should delete configuration files, where is specified your Albums location.

1. make sure digiKam isn't running
   

   
     $ ps -aux | grep digikam
   

   
   if there is more then one line kill the process by the kill command
   

   
     $ kill 1234
   

   
   The number 1234 stands for it's PID.
   
   


2. After there is no instance of digiKam do to your home folder and delete file located here:
   

   
     ~/.kde/share/config/digikamrc
   

   
   


3. Go to folder from where you tried to load photos and delete files named "digikam3.db" and "digikam3.db-journal".
   
   

Secondly, if your already digiKam started, specify a folder on local disk. Something like ~/.digikam. DigiKam will create there a database file probably called digikam3.db

Then go to your network storage (in my case /media/photo) and create there a symlink which points to your hard drive by command:

  ln -s ~/.digikam/digikam3.db

Now you can change path in digiKam's settings and photos will be loaded.