Debian Wheezy. amd64, TDE R-14

I fired up digikam on for the first time since new install, same home 
partition. None of my pictures are shown. The file and directory 
structure is shown under "My Albums" no pics.

When I go to 'Configure -Digikam > Album Settings> Album Library path',  
I get a " Cannot talk to tdelauncher" error message when I select a 
folder to use.

any one else?
-- 
Peace,

Greg