I have two drives on my desktop. One 1tb drive where I have my programs installed (including digiKam) and a larger secondary drive where I store photos etc.
I'm trying to import my photos from the secondary hard drive into digiKam but when I click import -> add images this drive does not show up an option to import from.
Does anyone know how I can import from my secondary hard drive into digiKam?
I'm running Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS and digiKam 7.5.0.
I'm guessing you have the snap version of digiKam, and it probably hasn't been given permission to the drive. I believe the official documentation is here.
But since you're specifically looking to access a folder, the answer to this post might be more on-target.
I finally found the GUI way to do it buried in another question, if this will help: https://askubuntu.com/a/1158109/1379110
I had a similar issue, it is NOT a snap issue (for once), but I wanted to use an SSH/SFTP mount. I could see the folder but it would be empty in digiKam, not in the file browser.
APT version had the same issue, left menu empty.
sudo apt install sshfs
mkdir ~/media
sshfs [email protected]:/media/pool/media /home/patrick/media
I downloaded the appImage from the site directly, which did show me the folder contents. Sadly the drives didn't show up in the left menu but I could browse to it via /media/patrick/DRIVE_NAME
