First run and re-scan
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Dear all, I've been slowly trying out Digikam for a while, and whilst it is undeniably impressive FOSS software, I keep hitting on a problem. Every now and again, when I launch the software, Digikam starts all over from scratch, re-scans my photos, and seems to set up a new database. It's just done it again this week and it's really starting to upset me. Each time this happens, I lose my tag structure and all data that was only in the database... Why does this happen, and how can I recover any lost info, if at all? I'm using Kubuntu 11.10 with the standard repository install. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks. Mark. _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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Rinus On 25-01-12 02:29, Mark Hayes (Hotmail) wrote:
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For a photographic DB manager often I need to have scanning of new items at startup, if I feed my folders with new photos.
Strange behaviour, true; fortunately I never observed it at all. Antonio
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In reply to this post by Mark Hayes (Hotmail)
Am 25.01.2012 02:29, schrieb Mark Hayes (Hotmail):
> Dear all, > > I've been slowly trying out Digikam for a while, and whilst it is > undeniably impressive FOSS software, I keep hitting on a problem. > > Every now and again, when I launch the software, Digikam starts all over > from scratch, re-scans my photos, and seems to set up a new database. > It's just done it again this week and it's really starting to upset me. > Each time this happens, I lose my tag structure and all data that was > only in the database... > > Why does this happen, and how can I recover any lost info, if at all? Is it possible that you killed the database and digikam starts with a fresh new one? I once had this problem (long ago with version 0.x). Martin > > I'm using Kubuntu 11.10 with the standard repository install. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Many thanks. > > Mark. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Digikam-users mailing list > [hidden email] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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On 25/01/12 01:29, Mark Hayes (Hotmail) wrote:
> Every now and again, when I launch the software, Digikam starts all over > from scratch, re-scans my photos, and seems to set up a new database. > It's just done it again this week and it's really starting to upset me. > Each time this happens, I lose my tag structure and all data that was > only in the database... > > Why does this happen, and how can I recover any lost info, if at all? > > I'm using Kubuntu 11.10 with the standard repository install. It would help to actually know what that version of digikam is. > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Many thanks. > > Mark. I have had this happen to me a couple of times but only when I was updating digikam. It was very annoying but not the end of the world as I had the metadata written to the image files. I am more careful about backing up my databases now as that is the best defence against this sort of problem. Once it has happened it is probably too late to recover without backups, sorry. Andrew _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
Re: First run and re-scan
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On 26/01/12 04:47, Andrew Goodbody wrote:
> On 25/01/12 01:29, Mark Hayes (Hotmail) wrote: >> Every now and again, when I launch the software, Digikam starts all over >> from scratch, re-scans my photos, and seems to set up a new database. >> It's just done it again this week and it's really starting to upset me. >> Each time this happens, I lose my tag structure and all data that was >> only in the database... >> >> Why does this happen, and how can I recover any lost info, if at all? >> >> I'm using Kubuntu 11.10 with the standard repository install. > > It would help to actually know what that version of digikam is. > >> Any help would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Many thanks. >> >> Mark. > > I have had this happen to me a couple of times but only when I was > updating digikam. It was very annoying but not the end of the world as > I had the metadata written to the image files. I am more careful about > backing up my databases now as that is the best defence against this > sort of problem. Once it has happened it is probably too late to > recover without backups, sorry. > > Andrew > Digikam is v 2.1.1 Unfortunately, since I was only really in 'playing and testing out Digikam mode' all of my metadata was not written to the files - and so I lost a complete tag structure etc etc. Ho hum.... _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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