Mounting a SD card: successfully outside the camera, no luck when trying it via the camera and USB cable.

[Nils Kassube]

Bas G. Roufs in English wrote:
> Yes, Nils - the device notifier DOES pop up when connecting SOME
> compact (ptp) camera via a USB cable. However - mounting via Dolphin
> or Gwenview in normal user mode is not possible, because of which the
> SD card contents do not show up.

OK, I don't know anything about ptp cameras - sorry.

> One additional workaround  is simply opening a terminal, after which I
> carry out  'sudo dolphin'.  After doing so, I close Dolphin and I
> start Gwenview or again Dolphin via the device notifier. Now, the
> photo's are being shown as they should be.

That's ugly. You shouldn't run a GUI application with sudo, use kdesudo 
instead. The problem is that some files in your home directory may be 
owned by root after you used "sudo dolphin". So if you now have 
permissions problems with dolphin run as normal user (or maybe other 
programs as well?) you know why. If you want to make sure to reverse 
such errors, you could run the command

sudo chown -R $USER: $HOME

in a terminal. No need to replace $USER or $HOME - the shell knows 
already how to do it.

> A second one is Digikam in normal user mode - that package still does
> download the photo's - even with the camera connected -
> notwithstanding the bug.

Great - then this is the workaround you should prefer. If I understand 
the comments in the bug report correctly, another option would be to use 
konqueror as file manager for the camera, if you don't want to use 
digikam. And you may also want to have a look at the upstream bug 
report, especially this comment: 
<https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264020#c14>.

> However it may be- the bug is still there - I would appreciate it
> being fixed.

If there will be a fix, I suppose it won't come for 13.10 but only for 
14.04.


Nils