Can no longer mount (with Device Notifier) camera after reinstall

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I had to do a complete reinstall of LEAP15.2 + KDE desktop.

After the reinstall, which went smoothly, I found that the Device Notifier no longer offered the option “open in FileManager”.when I tried to hook-up my camera. The only option provided was using gwenview -and that even did not work.

So all the hardware (laptop, camera) has remained the same and I reinstalled using the same 15.2 version from the same USB-stick, but the end result is not!
When I plug-oni another device, e.g. external USB disk, that one is recognised and I get the “OPen in File Manager” options in Device Notifier.

I have no idea how to tackle this problem.

Suggestions are very welcome.

Regards
Bertwim

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Are you sure this is due to the new installation?
It could also be that you changed something in your camera, like setting it to PTP instead of mass-storage.

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Check that the requisite KDE KIO packages are installed…

zypper se -si kio

In particular, the ‘kio-extras5’ and ‘kio_kamera’ packages.

If that checks out, run the following command in a terminal…

udevadm monitor

then plug the camera in and observe/capture the output.

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Yes, I am 100% sure. My camera ((Nikon D850) doesn’t even have such a switch. Furthermore, when I hook-up my camera to my other laptop, which fortunately still runs 15.1, there are no problems at all.

Regards,
BwvB

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This gave the solution! Neither kio-extras5 nor kio-kamera was installed. After correcting this, I could connect my camera again.
Thanks a lot!

Regards
Bertwim

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You’re welcome!