Digikam for import, Management, batch processing, tagging and albums.
From in DigiKam I launch RawTherapee for raw, Gimp for edits, and Hugin for panoramas.
Thanks. I already tried Smb4K. It finds the LAN shares and mounts them. But they are only mounted when Smb4K is running. I need them permanently mounted.
Duplicati Thanks. I just tried it. It doesn’t list Samba under storage type. I tried it anyway and never managed to get it to work. It’s really designed for cloud services. It might be possible to make it work if I knew networking trickery. But I can’t do it.
Thanks but no. It’s an off the shelf NAS disk (WD My-Cloud 4TB) with setup access via a web page. Technically it might be possible, requiring an IT hack. But I’m looking for a user-centric way.
Thanks. I’m sure that is technically possible. However I’m looking for an easy GUI way to do this for non IT specialists. Plasma fails badly here. Unless I’m missing a trick…
Typing magic spells is not something I want to explain to my kids. Bad usability is bad usability, even if they have to do it just once. Also it’s not always worked for me. Maybe I got just 1 letter wrong? That is the weakness with a hack. Some time ago I did autostart smb4k. But after a while it no longer mounted any shares. Also I suspect running an app just to mount the share seems like an iffy workaround. Does everyone do it? And no I don’t really want to mount the share at all. Yes I can already access it via Dolphin easily. But then I’d have to manually copy any new files and navigate to folders every time. More poor usability compared to 1 click in a sync app. I think Plasma is better than this.
There is always some process mounting the shares, be it graphical or not, even on windows
OK. Thanks. I thought the fstab entry looked a lot less involved, process wise.
Ah, yes, then you can try freefilesync, it supports a bunch of clouds and ftp, smb, etc There is also rclone
Freefile sync Files mode, can’t navigate to the LAN and Cloud mode only has SFTP, FTP and Google Drive. I tried anyway and it did not like it. Maybe there is a trick.
Rclone command line tool has a web GUI mode. I’ll try that next. Edit: No go. It seems the command line is needed to launch the rclone Web interface.
Thanks. Yes Gnome is better for apps accessing the LAN. And Deja Dup does connect as I’d expect. But it creates special files that can’t be accessed on the LAN itself. Only via restore, that cant be used by other PCs or if you change your distro. So yes there is almost a way with Plasma. But if that is totally useless, it’s still a fail.
For what I use Linux for, Inkscape, Blender, web browser etc. do you think they send text commands from the GUI to another UI, the CLI? Sounds like an inefficient, legacy irrelevance to the user.
Remember this a usability issue, so for non IT users, incoherent text strings or commands are indeed magic spells. Any inappropriate UI is bad usability. They have put a lot of effort into usability on Plasma. So it’s quite a shame that they got this so wrong.
It doesn’t have to be zero effort. But it’s good to have commands available for non IT specialists too. Where they don’t have to learn IT or memorise complex commands or use an unfamiliar type of UI. Usability.
My kids need to learn about backups. Backups should be easy. They are easy on Windows or Android. It could be easy on Plasma too.
Script them? That sound like a lot of IT skills are needed for that. I’ve never seen or used a script. Nor have my kids. Telling non IT users to do that is going to scare people back to Windows.
You might be into IT tools, and not in to usability. But this is a usability issue. If I can find a GUI way that you haven’t heard about because you are not interested in the GUI, then that is a benefit to Plasma non IT users, as I can share it around. Telling Plasma users to use another OS because Plasma can’t do it is quite bad. Especially if it turns out Plasma ‘can’ do it.
I’m not ‘scared of the cli’. I’m scared of wasting my time. I’m scared other people being told to use inappropriate tools and end up dropping Linux thinking it’s a nerds OS. I’m prepared to put effort in, to try out lots of methods to find appropriate solutions. And share the results.
Oh thats what that was. It looked like an error message. So I tried it. Horrible UX, and it did not have samba. I tried a few of the alternatives and it didn’t manage to connect.
The solution, as I posted at the start, is to do it with a GUI. So a script could never have helped.
Solving this and sharing it, will also help everyone who uses a GUI. Not just me.
Also, you might also be forgetting that I would have a whole lot more to learn as a non IT user. So a script would be a massive investment. And I will have forgotten it all again if I ever need to do another one in the future. I think that is unlikely. So a lot of effort for a one-off. Also I’d need to have the script in the App launcher. Even if that is possible, it’s yet more to legacy crap to learn.
Learning something useful is never a waste of time
Sure. I will happily spend my time learning useful stuff. I don’t want to waste time using bad UX because something is broken in a strange domain. I want to discover and share a good solution.
If you are not in to usability that’s OK. But this is a usability issue. A different world from yours. Software is there to help people. Never change the user to help the software.
The shares are on a WD-MyCloud 4Tb off the shelf NAS. With setup page via a browser. I’ve never found a GUI way to permanently mount a share. I hope someone develops one.
RcloneBrowser doesn’t achieve any more than Dolphin and is not designed for normal users. I’ll be trying smb4k again. But it has not been reliable in past attempts.
Backup needs to be something straight forward for non IT users. There are real benefits to all, if more people to use Linux and increase the market share. More drivers and applications for example. I find it strange that this is missing from Plasma.
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