digiKam 7.2.0-rc is released

[rasimo (Simon Frei (imsodin))]

@PanoMeister

digiKam could not create the folder to host your database file. Please select a different location.
c:\users[username]\Documents\digiKam

The path seems weird to me - why should a db be in documents? If that’s a default that maybe should be changed, but I assume that something you configured that way.

@PanoMeister

Upon further investigation:
there was a file created named ‘digikam’ in the above directory, but no folder.
When I manually create the subfolder c:\users[username]\Documents\digiKam after removing the ‘digikam’ file, there are indeed some .db files created in the subfolder ‘digikam’.

So things are working now?

@PanoMeister

Also I see c:\users[username]\appdata\local\digiKam directory with a ‘cache’ subfolder.
BUT, the ‘digikamrc’ and ‘digikam_systemrc’ files are created in the c:\users[username]\appdata\local directory. Which is imho 1 level too high…

That’s a KDE thing: Their config files usually go directly into the main config directory (what you wrote, or ~/.config on linux). I don’t particularly like that but it doesn’t create any problems, does it?

@paperdigits

@rasimo or post to the digikam mailing list.

I’d personally prefer it if user support happened here, the main place frequented by active devs and community is the digiKam user’s mailing list.

Also I can’t really count myself as a digiKam dev anymore - my contributions are so old, they don’t even come up in the current gitlab statistics anymore xD