Dolhpin Can't Mount SD Cards From Camera Nautilus Can

[Kaj Haulrich]

On 01/10/2012 01:30 PM, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:43 AM, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
>> On 10/01/12 13:56, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote:
>>
>>> Ok... Maybe, I should ask this: what version are you guys using? I'm
>>> not having any of the issues you describe, and I have used:
>>>
>>> + flashdrives
>>> + encrypted external hard drive
>>> + Phone.
>>>
>>> All of them were correctly mounted, and I was able to browse them with
>>> Dolphin.  I'm using Oneric with KDE packages from kubuntu ppa.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>
>>>   wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 02/01/12 03:18, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Today I connected my Nikon D7000 camera to Kubuntu and it popped a
>>>>> message
>>>>> to open it with either DigiKam, Dolphin or GwenView. I selected Dolphin
>>>>> but
>>>>> all it showed was some crazy folder which had no content in them. It
>>>>> also
>>>>> did not show the two SD carded in the left pane. I open the camera with
>>>>> Nautilus under Ubuntu and it mounted the cards as simple mass storage.
>>>>> How
>>>>> to use KDE/Kubuntu with my camera?
>>>>>
>>>>> Swapnil
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There appears to be a slight hitch in KDE which, now that the holiday
>>>> season
>>>> has (almost) come to a close, may be fixed in the foreseeable future.
>>>>
>>>> I can plug in my USB sticks and get that menu you write of but when I
>>>> click
>>>> on Open with Dolphin....nothing happens. I can do this repeatedly (by
>>>> removing the stick and re-inserting it) with same result.
>>>>
>>>> However, what I have learnt to do is to simply reboot the system (haven't
>>>> tried to just re-login again) and then Dolphin comes up and reads the USB
>>>> stick.
>>>>
>>>> I have no idea what is causing this, but this behaviour does not worry me
>>>> now as it did when it first occurred when I thought that the sky was
>>>> falling
>>>> in :-) .

Maybe it's the same bug as in 12.04 (precise pangolin): if Dolphin is 
set to open in 'split view' mode, then it fails to read external 
devices, such as an USB-stick. Disable 'split view' and it opens OK. 
After it opens, you can enable 'split view' again and everything is dandy.

Kaj Haulrich.
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