https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397777
Bug ID: 397777
Summary: Need to default to native filesystem browser on first
run to see external drives
Product: digikam
Version: 5.9.0
Platform: Mac OS X Disk Images
OS: OS X
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: Setup-FirstRun
Assignee: digikam-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: rogercre...@hotmail.com
Target Milestone: ---
The first run wizard forces the use of the DigiKam built in file selection
dialogue which cannot see external discs and USB drives in MacOS.
There is no warning about this anywhere I could see so I wasted a lot of time
trying different file formats (Mac, exFAT, FAT etc) and recopying 20,000 photos
onto the drive before I eventually found a reference buried in the support
maillist to explain that you had to switch to the native system file dialogue
to see external drives on a Mac. And you can't do this until after the first
run dialogue is complete.
The workaround is to create a local temporary location with no photos in it to
enable first run, then switch the file dialog setting, then create your desired
collection location and delete the temporary one.
The fix is either to make DigiKam default to using the native system file
dialogs (what is the advantage of using something else - in general these
alternatives are never better than the native system and in this case
significantly worse), or as a less satisfactory alternative to provide a clear
up-front explanation as to why you can't see your drive full of photos which
you know is there during the setup process and explain the workaround.
Hope this is clear. Although it is obviously only a one-time problem for any
user and only affects those keeping photos on an external drive it has a high
negative impact (I was on the point of ditching DigiKam as unusable) so the
priority perhaps should be higher than normal.
Thanks
RogerCO
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