An error occurred during tag creation

[Mark Hayes]

Hi,

I've been having some problems recently, trying to get Digikam set up
correctly for me...

Over the last two days, I've been having problems adding tags.  A couple
of days ago, all the thumbnails disappeared, and along with it, a few of
the tags I'd had in previously.

So I'm trying to add tags back in - but it fails every time.  Here is
what I've tried:

1.  Right click on a tag in the tag hierarchy that I have, and choose
"New Tag"
2.  Input a name for my new tag - Asia, press enter or click OK.

The error I get is a small window with the title "Tag creation error -
digikam"
The error says, "An error occurred during tag creation:"
Then it shows the tag path that it was trying to create (shown
correctly) and an error message next to it that just says, "Failed to
add tag to database".  However, it doesn't tell me what to do about it -
or why it failed.

I've also tried using Tag > New... from the menu system - same result.

Why is it that I can no longer create tags?  I mean, I have already
created some tags - but don't seem to be able to create any more.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Mark.

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[Mark Hayes (Hotmail)]

Hi,

I've been having some problems recently, trying to get Digikam set up
correctly for me...

Over the last two days, I've been having problems adding tags.  A couple
of days ago, all the thumbnails disappeared, and along with it, a few of
the tags I'd had in previously.

So I'm trying to add tags back in - but it fails every time.  Here is
what I've tried:

1.  Right click on a tag in the tag hierarchy that I have, and choose
"New Tag"
2.  Input a name for my new tag - Asia, press enter or click OK.

The error I get is a small window with the title "Tag creation error -
digikam"
The error says, "An error occurred during tag creation:"
Then it shows the tag path that it was trying to create (shown
correctly) and an error message next to it that just says, "Failed to
add tag to database".  However, it doesn't tell me what to do about it -
or why it failed.

I've also tried using Tag > New... from the menu system - same result.

Why is it that I can no longer create tags?  I mean, I have already
created some tags - but don't seem to be able to create any more.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Mark.


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[Andrew Goodbody]

On 27/02/12 13:01, Mark Hayes (Hotmail) wrote:
> The error I get is a small window with the title "Tag creation error -
> digikam"
> The error says, "An error occurred during tag creation:"
> Then it shows the tag path that it was trying to create (shown
> correctly) and an error message next to it that just says, "Failed to
> add tag to database".  However, it doesn't tell me what to do about it -
> or why it failed.

I generally get this when I try and create a tag with the same name as
another already existing tag. The existing tag may be in another part of
the hierarchy, not necessarily where you are creating the new tag. Each
tag name must be unique. The last time that this happened was quite
strange. I cannot remember the exact details but it may have been that
it let me create one duplicate tag and then subsequent non-duplicate
additions failed.

Andrew
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[Andrew Goodbody]

On 27/02/12 23:12, Mark Hayes (Hotmail) wrote:

> Andrew, thanks for that. Will check later.
>
> I don't believe that this is the case though... unless I have a more
> serious issue!
>
> The tag that I was creating DID exist before I lost a few tags a few
> days ago. However, the tag list shown most definitely does not have it
> there now.
>
> I suppose that it's possible that the tag structure has the tags in it
> but that for some reason, the program doesn't show them. Maybe the
> database is corrupted?
>
> How could I check, and how would I be able to fix that?
>
> I will make a test tag later of something that I know never existed
> before... and see if that would work.
>
> For info, I'm using version 2.1.1 on Kubuntu with KDE 4.7.4
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mark.

Hi Mark,

Do please always reply to the list. I am only an occasional user and
there are other more experienced people around, but not everyone always
has the time to answer or may miss questions.

I have no idea how you could lose a few tags, it makes no sense to me.
So I wonder what happened to them. I do not even know if it is possible
but maybe they have been moved to another part of the hierarchy where
you are not looking for them?

Andrew
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