Greetings Gilles Caulier,
Have solved the problem.....After disabling practically all the options in the settings of the Motherboard (MSI 970A-G43 MS-7693(V3.x)) I reinstalled Mageia-6-sta-2-x86_64-DVD.iso using a previously installed HDD thereby using the the autoalloacated patitions, which would not allow me to do previously claiming the partitions: /, Linux swap and /usr, were to small (under 8.4GiB each). This done under "expert mode". At the end of the installations it further installed the "Grub2" boot system and the tried to add an additional entry which surly had to do with the UEFI, which I deleted. I booted Mageia 6 and proceeded to install mi WiFi, them did the updates, all before opening Digikam. Then, using Dolphin copied the picture files from sdb1 to /home/egh/Pictures in sda7 This went OK. Having completed this, I opened Digikam and followed the opening prompts which found the path /home/egh/Pictures, but I still could not open them. On further exploring, found a new slider at the bottom right corner of Digikam which starting showing an incremental percentage figure which was a new copying into Digikam. On completion of 100% I opened the picture list to find they were all there; all 411 folders with their pictures in them......Hooray, after a lot of fiddling!
Thanks for all your help and have a nice weekend.
Kind regards,
Edward G. Howard
Registered Linux User #224802
On 13 July 2017 at 21:23, Edward <eghoward@gmail.com> wrote:

> I haven't found a way to eliminate/close the Windows virus EUFI, which is in the motherboard firmware. If you know of a method to do this, please let me know, as it is become a problem to install Linux in PCs.
> I have gone frequently to Digikam's Settings....Digikam Migration and Configure Digikam. Tried multiple different settings, all to no avail.
> Kind regards,
> Edward G. Howard
> Registered Linux User #224802
> On 13 July 2017 at 20:54, <bugzilla_noreply@kde.org> wrote:

> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382259
> > --- Comment #13 from caulier.gilles@gmail.com ---
> > >where do I find the SDK setup dialog?
> > Not SDK but DK ==> digiKam (:=)))...
> > Go to digiKam main menu, Settings/Configure...
> > Note : if it's due to an Anti-virus side effect, so this file can be closed, as
> > you tested with other system which don't have this kind of problem. Right ?
> > Gilles Caulier
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