digikam usage

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings;

I have always treated my Olympus C3020z as a usb storage device, mounting 
it as /mnt/camera or in the case if FC6, /media/camera, from whereever it 
showed up in the logs when I plugged it in and turned it on.  Lately its 
been a race to get the pix out of it before the thing did an auto-off 
because if you don't clean the battery contacts in the camera, and the 
batteries aren't above 1.48 volts, it won't live long enough to go 
through all the rigmarole it takes to get it mounted & copy the pix back 
out of it, keeping in mind it has the infamous vfat bug that causes all 
images beyond the current sector of the directory structure to disappear 
if all the files in that sector have been deleted.

Anyway, I just screwed around with digikam this afternoon after seeing 
some glowing reports about it, long enough to kill two sets of AA cells, 
without getting digikam to actually access the camera, or display the 
thumbnails of the images already in the directory I had it pointed to.

I wound up using mc as usual, to move the images to my hard drive, in 
reverse order of course.

If digikam is so great, why does everything stay ghosted out regardless of 
what I do?  The menu's apparently assume everything is preconfigured I 
guess, but they are not exactly intuitive, and no errors are ever 
reported ANAICT.  Like when I selected my camera make & model from the 
list, and the usb dot is checked, does it report it can't scan '/', which 
isn't the path to the camera.  And when I select "mounted camera" and 
verify by other means its mounted and visible, it still can't find it.

So please, someone who is familiar with it, whats step one, which is to 
get it to see the 3GB of pictures in jpeg format that are already stored 
there in the path I give for the so called "album"?

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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