Re: Collections are suddenly gone in DK

On 12/09/2025 17.52, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> I'm 99% sure that something in your Windows installation locks the
> database or the application or the file system. This introduces giant
> time latency in the program. This can be the Windows update running in
> background, an antivirus, or a malfunction with your hardware.
>
> Another issue can be the file path scheme name in your collection
> which cause dysfunction, eg. no latin1 char encoding for ex, even if
> digiKam supports UTF8 and the application manifest for Windows sets
> these properties at run time.
>
> In my office we switch from WIN10 to WIN11 progressively on all
> desktop computers, and we sometimes see troubles with file paths when
> we use company applications (where WIN10 has no problem for a very
> long time). This is difficult to investigate and to reproduce. This is
> especially true with the network file systems but not with all users.
> The reason is not clear...


This is macOS - not Windows.

I don't think something is locking my files and I have tried over 
multiple restarts.

I will try to see if I can figure out how to see which files are locked 
on macOS.

There is no antivirus.


Also, all files on this file system should be plain ascii compatible as 
I ensure files only have names in the set "A-Za-z0-9._, -()+"


Any ideas how to troubleshoot this further?