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daniel bip

Information lost

Hi there,

Situation: I had several folders in a given album. I tagged everyone, rated all my pictures, located them, bla bla bla. Then I decided I wanted all those folders to be inside another one, and moved them all (movement done from DK, of course) into that folder.

Result: all the information is lost. No tags, no starts, no nothing at all. Tried to Quit and Start DK again. Nothing. Tried to move those folders back to the original location. Nothing. Tried to replicate the problem by rating another picture in that folder and moving the whole folder to a new location. The information is lost again...

So.. it seems DK can't handle folders been moved from root album into another folder, right?

Is there any way I could try to recover all that information? I guess it is still in SQLite..

System: Ubuntu 16.4 Digikam 5.5 from Philip Johnson's PPA running as a Oracle VM, SQLite as out of the box, pictures stored in Windows folders mounted in Ubuntu.

BR...

daniel bip

Fwd: Information lost

Hi there,

One week ago I sent the mail below, getting no answer. It probably didn't get to the list...

May someone help? Is it normal to loose all the information when moving one directory into another one? Any way to recover the information from SQL? I saw it contains a field called Status which seems to keep track of changes, if I'm not wrong...

Thanks in advance.

BR,

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: daniel bip <[hidden email]>
Date: 17 April 2017 at 17:49
Subject: Information lost
To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>

Hi there,

So.. it seems DK can't handle folders been moved from root album into another folder, right?

Is there any way I could try to recover all that information? I guess it is still in SQLite..

System: Ubuntu 16.4 Digikam 5.5 from Philip Johnson's PPA running as a Oracle VM, SQLite as out of the box, pictures stored in Windows folders mounted in Ubuntu.

BR...

AndriusWild

Re: Fwd: Information lost

In reply to this post by daniel bip

I always move pictures around. I have also regenerated the .db file for my collection on a freshly system few times. Never lost a thing.

So I don't think it is normal to lose your info when moving photos.

As for the second question (recovering from SQL), there was someone here who wrote a python script that recovers some certain information from sql database and writes it to image files. I would try searching by "sql" "python" "script" keywords here:

http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

-------- Original message --------

From: daniel bip <[hidden email]>

Date: 2017-04-23 1:17 PM (GMT-07:00)

To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>

Subject: Fwd: Information lost

Hi there,

One week ago I sent the mail below, getting no answer. It probably didn't get to the list...

Thanks in advance.

BR,

Hi there,

So.. it seems DK can't handle folders been moved from root album into another folder, right?

Is there any way I could try to recover all that information? I guess it is still in SQLite..

System: Ubuntu 16.4 Digikam 5.5 from Philip Johnson's PPA running as a Oracle VM, SQLite as out of the box, pictures stored in Windows folders mounted in Ubuntu.

BR...

daniel bip

Re: Fwd: Information lost

Andrey,

Thanks for your reply. Have you ever moved an entire folder into another one? (the folder itself, not the images of that folfer: \\repository\folder1\ -> \\repository\folder2\folder1\). When I do so it's when I loose all the information...

Thanks.

BR,

On 23 April 2017 at 23:23, Andrey Goreev <[hidden email]> wrote:

I always move pictures around. I have also regenerated the .db file for my collection on a freshly system few times. Never lost a thing.
So I don't think it is normal to lose your info when moving photos.
As for the second question (recovering from SQL), there was someone here who wrote a python script that recovers some certain information from sql database and writes it to image files. I would try searching by "sql" "python" "script" keywords here:
http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

-------- Original message --------
From: daniel bip <[hidden email]>
Date: 2017-04-23 1:17 PM (GMT-07:00)
To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>
Subject: Fwd: Information lost

Hi there,

One week ago I sent the mail below, getting no answer. It probably didn't get to the list...

May someone help? Is it normal to loose all the information when moving one directory into another one? Any way to recover the information from SQL? I saw it contains a field called Status which seems to keep track of changes, if I'm not wrong...

Thanks in advance.

BR,

d.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: daniel bip <[hidden email]>
Date: 17 April 2017 at 17:49
Subject: Information lost
To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>

Hi there,

Situation: I had several folders in a given album. I tagged everyone, rated all my pictures, located them, bla bla bla. Then I decided I wanted all those folders to be inside another one, and moved them all (movement done from DK, of course) into that folder.

Result: all the information is lost. No tags, no starts, no nothing at all. Tried to Quit and Start DK again. Nothing. Tried to move those folders back to the original location. Nothing. Tried to replicate the problem by rating another picture in that folder and moving the whole folder to a new location. The information is lost again...

So.. it seems DK can't handle folders been moved from root album into another folder, right?

Is there any way I could try to recover all that information? I guess it is still in SQLite..

System: Ubuntu 16.4 Digikam 5.5 from Philip Johnson's PPA running as a Oracle VM, SQLite as out of the box, pictures stored in Windows folders mounted in Ubuntu.

BR...

d.

AndriusWild

Re: Fwd: Information lost

In reply to this post by daniel bip

Daniel

Yes I have.

I normally have two collections:

/home/user/pictures

/home/user/pictures_unsorted

I do culling, raw developing, some tagging in the unsorted collection and move its subfolders to the pictures collection when I am done.

I do write metadata to JPEGs, raw images & video files though.

After adding a tag I usually wait until the writing process is done and then check a random picture pressing ctrl + shift + M and looking at keywords.

On linux Geeqie is also a good way to check if tags were written.

On Windows you can just use file Explorer.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

-------- Original message --------

From: daniel bip <[hidden email]>

Date: 2017-04-23 3:49 PM (GMT-07:00)

To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>

Subject: Re: Fwd: Information lost

Andrey,

Thanks.

BR,

On 23 April 2017 at 23:23, Andrey Goreev <[hidden email]> wrote:

I always move pictures around. I have also regenerated the .db file for my collection on a freshly system few times. Never lost a thing.
So I don't think it is normal to lose your info when moving photos.
As for the second question (recovering from SQL), there was someone here who wrote a python script that recovers some certain information from sql database and writes it to image files. I would try searching by "sql" "python" "script" keywords here:
http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

-------- Original message --------
From: daniel bip <[hidden email]>
Date: 2017-04-23 1:17 PM (GMT-07:00)
To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>
Subject: Fwd: Information lost

Hi there,

One week ago I sent the mail below, getting no answer. It probably didn't get to the list...

May someone help? Is it normal to loose all the information when moving one directory into another one? Any way to recover the information from SQL? I saw it contains a field called Status which seems to keep track of changes, if I'm not wrong...

Thanks in advance.

BR,

d.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: daniel bip <[hidden email]>
Date: 17 April 2017 at 17:49
Subject: Information lost
To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>

Hi there,

Situation: I had several folders in a given album. I tagged everyone, rated all my pictures, located them, bla bla bla. Then I decided I wanted all those folders to be inside another one, and moved them all (movement done from DK, of course) into that folder.

Result: all the information is lost. No tags, no starts, no nothing at all. Tried to Quit and Start DK again. Nothing. Tried to move those folders back to the original location. Nothing. Tried to replicate the problem by rating another picture in that folder and moving the whole folder to a new location. The information is lost again...

So.. it seems DK can't handle folders been moved from root album into another folder, right?

Is there any way I could try to recover all that information? I guess it is still in SQLite..

System: Ubuntu 16.4 Digikam 5.5 from Philip Johnson's PPA running as a Oracle VM, SQLite as out of the box, pictures stored in Windows folders mounted in Ubuntu.

BR...

d.

Anders Lund

Re: Fwd: Information lost

In reply to this post by daniel bip

søndag den 23. april 2017 23.49.28 CEST skrev daniel bip:
> Andrey,
>
> Thanks for your reply. Have you ever moved an entire folder into another
> one? (the folder itself, not the images of that folfer:
> \\repository\folder1\ -> \\repository\folder2\folder1\). When I do so it's
> when I loose all the information...

Hi Andrey,

I move folders from a collection on my laptop to one on my external disk
regularly, without loosing metadata (which is stored in the dk database, as
the files are mostly CR2s).

Kindly,
Anders

> Thanks.
>
> BR,
>
>
> d.
>
> On 23 April 2017 at 23:23, Andrey Goreev <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > I always move pictures around. I have also regenerated the .db file for my
> > collection on a freshly system few times. Never lost a thing.
> > So I don't think it is normal to lose your info when moving photos.
> > As for the second question (recovering from SQL), there was someone here
> > who wrote a python script that recovers some certain information from sql
> > database and writes it to image files. I would try searching by "sql"
> > "python" "script" keywords here:
> > http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/
> >
> > Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
> >
> > -------- Original message --------
> > From: daniel bip <[hidden email]>
> > Date: 2017-04-23 1:17 PM (GMT-07:00)
> > To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
> > power of open source <[hidden email]>
> > Subject: Fwd: Information lost
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > One week ago I sent the mail below, getting no answer. It probably didn't
> > get to the list...
> >
> > May someone help? Is it normal to loose all the information when moving
> > one directory into another one? Any way to recover the information from
> > SQL? I saw it contains a field called Status which seems to keep track of
> > changes, if I'm not wrong...
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > BR,
> >
> >
> > d.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: daniel bip <[hidden email]>
> > Date: 17 April 2017 at 17:49
> > Subject: Information lost
> > To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
> > power of open source <[hidden email]>
> >
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Situation: I had several folders in a given album. I tagged everyone,
> > rated all my pictures, located them, bla bla bla. Then I decided I wanted
> > all those folders to be inside another one, and moved them all (movement
> > done from DK, of course) into that folder.
> >
> > Result: all the information is lost. No tags, no starts, no nothing at
> > all. Tried to Quit and Start DK again. Nothing. Tried to move those
> > folders
> > back to the original location. Nothing. Tried to replicate the problem by
> > rating another picture in that folder and moving the whole folder to a new
> > location. The information is lost again...
> >
> > So.. it seems DK can't handle folders been moved from root album into
> > another folder, right?
> >
> > Is there any way I could try to recover all that information? I guess it
> > is still in SQLite..
> >
> > System: Ubuntu 16.4 Digikam 5.5 from Philip Johnson's PPA running as a
> > Oracle VM, SQLite as out of the box, pictures stored in Windows folders
> > mounted in Ubuntu.
> >
> > BR...
> >
> >
> > d.

daniel bip

Re: Fwd: Information lost

In reply to this post by AndriusWild

Hi Andrey,

As you write the information in the file itself then it's not the same situation, as I keep all that information in SQLite.

Thanks anyway.

BR,

On 24 April 2017 at 01:04, Andrey Goreev <[hidden email]> wrote:

Daniel

Yes I have.
I normally have two collections:

/home/user/pictures
/home/user/pictures_unsorted

I do culling, raw developing, some tagging in the unsorted collection and move its subfolders to the pictures collection when I am done.

I do write metadata to JPEGs, raw images & video files though.

After adding a tag I usually wait until the writing process is done and then check a random picture pressing ctrl + shift + M and looking at keywords.

On linux Geeqie is also a good way to check if tags were written.

On Windows you can just use file Explorer.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

-------- Original message --------
From: daniel bip <[hidden email]>
Date: 2017-04-23 3:49 PM (GMT-07:00)
To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Information lost

Andrey,

Thanks for your reply. Have you ever moved an entire folder into another one? (the folder itself, not the images of that folfer: \\repository\folder1\ -> \\repository\folder2\folder1\). When I do so it's when I loose all the information...

Thanks.

BR,

d.

On 23 April 2017 at 23:23, Andrey Goreev <[hidden email]> wrote:
I always move pictures around. I have also regenerated the .db file for my collection on a freshly system few times. Never lost a thing.
So I don't think it is normal to lose your info when moving photos.
As for the second question (recovering from SQL), there was someone here who wrote a python script that recovers some certain information from sql database and writes it to image files. I would try searching by "sql" "python" "script" keywords here:
http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

-------- Original message --------
From: daniel bip <[hidden email]>
Date: 2017-04-23 1:17 PM (GMT-07:00)
To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>
Subject: Fwd: Information lost

Hi there,

One week ago I sent the mail below, getting no answer. It probably didn't get to the list...

May someone help? Is it normal to loose all the information when moving one directory into another one? Any way to recover the information from SQL? I saw it contains a field called Status which seems to keep track of changes, if I'm not wrong...

Thanks in advance.

BR,

d.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: daniel bip <[hidden email]>
Date: 17 April 2017 at 17:49
Subject: Information lost
To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>

Hi there,

Situation: I had several folders in a given album. I tagged everyone, rated all my pictures, located them, bla bla bla. Then I decided I wanted all those folders to be inside another one, and moved them all (movement done from DK, of course) into that folder.

Result: all the information is lost. No tags, no starts, no nothing at all. Tried to Quit and Start DK again. Nothing. Tried to move those folders back to the original location. Nothing. Tried to replicate the problem by rating another picture in that folder and moving the whole folder to a new location. The information is lost again...

So.. it seems DK can't handle folders been moved from root album into another folder, right?

Is there any way I could try to recover all that information? I guess it is still in SQLite..

System: Ubuntu 16.4 Digikam 5.5 from Philip Johnson's PPA running as a Oracle VM, SQLite as out of the box, pictures stored in Windows folders mounted in Ubuntu.

BR...

d.

daniel bip

Re: Fwd: Information lost

In reply to this post by Anders Lund

Hi Anders,

Do you move folders the same way I move them (from level1 to level2) or from level1 to level1?

I do:

From: repository\folder1\pictures.JPG

To: repository\folder2\folder1\pictures.JPG

Thanks for your feedback

BR,

On 24 April 2017 at 06:26, Anders Lund <[hidden email]> wrote:

søndag den 23. april <a href="tel:2017%2023.49.28" value="+12017234928">2017 23.49.28 CEST skrev daniel bip:
> Andrey,
>
> Thanks for your reply. Have you ever moved an entire folder into another
> one? (the folder itself, not the images of that folfer:
> \\repository\folder1\ -> \\repository\folder2\folder1\). When I do so it's
> when I loose all the information...

Hi Andrey,

I move folders from a collection on my laptop to one on my external disk
regularly, without loosing metadata (which is stored in the dk database, as
the files are mostly CR2s).

Kindly,
Anders

> Thanks.
>
> BR,
>
>
> d.
>
> On 23 April 2017 at 23:23, Andrey Goreev <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > I always move pictures around. I have also regenerated the .db file for my
> > collection on a freshly system few times. Never lost a thing.
> > So I don't think it is normal to lose your info when moving photos.
> > As for the second question (recovering from SQL), there was someone here
> > who wrote a python script that recovers some certain information from sql
> > database and writes it to image files. I would try searching by "sql"
> > "python" "script" keywords here:
> > http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/
> >
> > Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
> >
> > -------- Original message --------
> > From: daniel bip <[hidden email]>
> > Date: 2017-04-23 1:17 PM (GMT-07:00)
> > To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
> > power of open source <[hidden email]>
> > Subject: Fwd: Information lost
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > One week ago I sent the mail below, getting no answer. It probably didn't
> > get to the list...
> >
> > May someone help? Is it normal to loose all the information when moving
> > one directory into another one? Any way to recover the information from
> > SQL? I saw it contains a field called Status which seems to keep track of
> > changes, if I'm not wrong...
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > BR,
> >
> >
> > d.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: daniel bip <[hidden email]>
> > Date: 17 April 2017 at 17:49
> > Subject: Information lost
> > To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
> > power of open source <[hidden email]>
> >
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Situation: I had several folders in a given album. I tagged everyone,
> > rated all my pictures, located them, bla bla bla. Then I decided I wanted
> > all those folders to be inside another one, and moved them all (movement
> > done from DK, of course) into that folder.
> >
> > Result: all the information is lost. No tags, no starts, no nothing at
> > all. Tried to Quit and Start DK again. Nothing. Tried to move those
> > folders
> > back to the original location. Nothing. Tried to replicate the problem by
> > rating another picture in that folder and moving the whole folder to a new
> > location. The information is lost again...
> >
> > So.. it seems DK can't handle folders been moved from root album into
> > another folder, right?
> >
> > Is there any way I could try to recover all that information? I guess it
> > is still in SQLite..
> >
> > System: Ubuntu 16.4 Digikam 5.5 from Philip Johnson's PPA running as a
> > Oracle VM, SQLite as out of the box, pictures stored in Windows folders
> > mounted in Ubuntu.
> >
> > BR...
> >
> >
> > d.

Anders Lund

Re: Fwd: Information lost

mandag den 24. april 2017 13.35.12 CEST skrev daniel bip:
> Hi Anders,
>
> Do you move folders the same way I move them (from level1 to level2) or
> from level1 to level1?
>
> I do:
>
> From: repository\folder1\pictures.JPG
> To: repository\folder2\folder1\pictures.JPG

My typical action is to drag

/Photos/2017/<folder> to /Bigdisk/2017/

This moves a folder (containing subfolders) to an external drive.

Kindly,
Anders

>
> Thanks for your feedback
>
> BR,
>
>
> d.
>
> On 24 April 2017 at 06:26, Anders Lund <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > søndag den 23. april 2017 23.49.28 CEST skrev daniel bip:
> > > Andrey,
> > >
> > > Thanks for your reply. Have you ever moved an entire folder into another
> > > one? (the folder itself, not the images of that folfer:
> > > \\repository\folder1\ -> \\repository\folder2\folder1\). When I do so
> >
> > it's
> >
> > > when I loose all the information...
> >
> > Hi Andrey,
> >
> > I move folders from a collection on my laptop to one on my external disk
> > regularly, without loosing metadata (which is stored in the dk database,
> > as
> > the files are mostly CR2s).
> >
> > Kindly,
> > Anders
> >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > BR,
> > >
> > >
> > > d.
> > >
> > > On 23 April 2017 at 23:23, Andrey Goreev <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > > > I always move pictures around. I have also regenerated the .db file
> >
> > for my
> >
> > > > collection on a freshly system few times. Never lost a thing.
> > > > So I don't think it is normal to lose your info when moving photos.
> > > > As for the second question (recovering from SQL), there was someone
> >
> > here
> >
> > > > who wrote a python script that recovers some certain information from
> >
> > sql
> >
> > > > database and writes it to image files. I would try searching by "sql"
> > > > "python" "script" keywords here:
> > > > http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/
> > > >
> > > > Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
> > > >
> > > > -------- Original message --------
> > > > From: daniel bip <[hidden email]>
> > > > Date: 2017-04-23 1:17 PM (GMT-07:00)
> > > > To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
> > > > power of open source <[hidden email]>
> > > > Subject: Fwd: Information lost
> > > >
> > > > Hi there,
> > > >
> > > > One week ago I sent the mail below, getting no answer. It probably
> >
> > didn't
> >
> > > > get to the list...
> > > >
> > > > May someone help? Is it normal to loose all the information when
> > > > moving
> > > > one directory into another one? Any way to recover the information
> > > > from
> > > > SQL? I saw it contains a field called Status which seems to keep track
> >
> > of
> >
> > > > changes, if I'm not wrong...
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance.
> > > >
> > > > BR,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > d.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > > From: daniel bip <[hidden email]>
> > > > Date: 17 April 2017 at 17:49
> > > > Subject: Information lost
> > > > To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
> > > > power of open source <[hidden email]>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi there,
> > > >
> > > > Situation: I had several folders in a given album. I tagged everyone,
> > > > rated all my pictures, located them, bla bla bla. Then I decided I
> >
> > wanted
> >
> > > > all those folders to be inside another one, and moved them all
> >
> > (movement
> >
> > > > done from DK, of course) into that folder.
> > > >
> > > > Result: all the information is lost. No tags, no starts, no nothing at
> > > > all. Tried to Quit and Start DK again. Nothing. Tried to move those
> > > > folders
> > > > back to the original location. Nothing. Tried to replicate the problem
> >
> > by
> >
> > > > rating another picture in that folder and moving the whole folder to a
> >
> > new
> >
> > > > location. The information is lost again...
> > > >
> > > > So.. it seems DK can't handle folders been moved from root album into
> > > > another folder, right?
> > > >
> > > > Is there any way I could try to recover all that information? I guess
> >
> > it
> >
> > > > is still in SQLite..
> > > >
> > > > System: Ubuntu 16.4 Digikam 5.5 from Philip Johnson's PPA running as a
> > > > Oracle VM, SQLite as out of the box, pictures stored in Windows
> > > > folders
> > > > mounted in Ubuntu.
> > > >
> > > > BR...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > d.

AndriusWild

Re: Fwd: Information lost

In reply to this post by daniel bip

I am assuming that both /Photos and /Bigdisk are being digiKam collections, correct ?

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

-------- Original message --------

From: Anders Lund <[hidden email]>

Date: 2017-04-24 7:20 AM (GMT-07:00)

To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>

Subject: Re: Fwd: Information lost

Anders Lund

Re: Fwd: Information lost

mandag den 24. april 2017 15.25.03 CEST skrev Andrey Goreev:
> I am assuming that both /Photos and /Bigdisk are being digiKam collections,
> correct ?

Yes, both are collections. I do this in the digikam album list.

Kindly,
Anders

>
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
> -------- Original message --------From: Anders Lund <[hidden email]> Date:
> 2017-04-24 7:20 AM (GMT-07:00) To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs
> as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Information lost
> mandag den 24. april 2017 13.35.12 CEST skrev daniel bip:
> > Hi Anders,
> >
> > Do you move folders the same way I move them (from level1 to level2) or
> > from level1 to level1?
> >
> > I do:
> >
> > From: repository\folder1\pictures.JPG
> > To: repository\folder2\folder1\pictures.JPG
>
> My typical action is to drag
>
> /Photos/2017/<folder> to /Bigdisk/2017/
>
> This moves a folder (containing subfolders) to an external drive.
>
> Kindly,
> Anders
>
> > Thanks for your feedback
> >
> > BR,
> >
> >
> > d.
> >
> > On 24 April 2017 at 06:26, Anders Lund <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > > søndag den 23. april 2017 23.49.28 CEST skrev daniel bip:
> > > > Andrey,
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for your reply. Have you ever moved an entire folder into
> > > > another
> > > > one? (the folder itself, not the images of that folfer:
> > > > \\repository\folder1\ -> \\repository\folder2\folder1\). When I do so
> > >
> > > it's
> > >
> > > > when I loose all the information...
> > >
> > > Hi Andrey,
> > >
> > > I move folders from a collection on my laptop to one on my external disk
> > > regularly, without loosing metadata (which is stored in the dk database,
> > > as
> > > the files are mostly CR2s).
> > >
> > > Kindly,
> > > Anders
> > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > BR,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > d.
> > > >
> > > > On 23 April 2017 at 23:23, Andrey Goreev <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > > > > I always move pictures around. I have also regenerated the .db file
> > >
> > > for my
> > >
> > > > > collection on a freshly system few times. Never lost a thing.
> > > > > So I don't think it is normal to lose your info when moving photos.
> > > > > As for the second question (recovering from SQL), there was someone
> > >
> > > here
> > >
> > > > > who wrote a python script that recovers some certain information
> > > > > from
> > >
> > > sql
> > >
> > > > > database and writes it to image files. I would try searching by
> > > > > "sql"
> > > > > "python" "script" keywords here:
> > > > > http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/
> > > > >
> > > > > Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
> > > > >
> > > > > -------- Original message --------
> > > > > From: daniel bip <[hidden email]>
> > > > > Date: 2017-04-23 1:17 PM (GMT-07:00)
> > > > > To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with
> > > > > the
> > > > > power of open source <[hidden email]>
> > > > > Subject: Fwd: Information lost
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi there,
> > > > >
> > > > > One week ago I sent the mail below, getting no answer. It probably
> > >
> > > didn't
> > >
> > > > > get to the list...
> > > > >
> > > > > May someone help? Is it normal to loose all the information when
> > > > > moving
> > > > > one directory into another one? Any way to recover the information
> > > > > from
> > > > > SQL? I saw it contains a field called Status which seems to keep
> > > > > track
> > >
> > > of
> > >
> > > > > changes, if I'm not wrong...
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks in advance.
> > > > >
> > > > > BR,
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > d.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > > > From: daniel bip <[hidden email]>
> > > > > Date: 17 April 2017 at 17:49
> > > > > Subject: Information lost
> > > > > To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with
> > > > > the
> > > > > power of open source <[hidden email]>
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi there,
> > > > >
> > > > > Situation: I had several folders in a given album. I tagged
> > > > > everyone,
> > > > > rated all my pictures, located them, bla bla bla. Then I decided I
> > >
> > > wanted
> > >
> > > > > all those folders to be inside another one, and moved them all
> > >
> > > (movement
> > >
> > > > > done from DK, of course) into that folder.
> > > > >
> > > > > Result: all the information is lost. No tags, no starts, no nothing
> > > > > at
> > > > > all. Tried to Quit and Start DK again. Nothing. Tried to move those
> > > > > folders
> > > > > back to the original location. Nothing. Tried to replicate the
> > > > > problem
> > >
> > > by
> > >
> > > > > rating another picture in that folder and moving the whole folder to
> > > > > a
> > >
> > > new
> > >
> > > > > location. The information is lost again...
> > > > >
> > > > > So.. it seems DK can't handle folders been moved from root album
> > > > > into
> > > > > another folder, right?
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there any way I could try to recover all that information? I
> > > > > guess
> > >
> > > it
> > >
> > > > > is still in SQLite..
> > > > >
> > > > > System: Ubuntu 16.4 Digikam 5.5 from Philip Johnson's PPA running as
> > > > > a
> > > > > Oracle VM, SQLite as out of the box, pictures stored in Windows
> > > > > folders
> > > > > mounted in Ubuntu.
> > > > >
> > > > > BR...
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > d.

AndriusWild

Re: Fwd: Information lost

In reply to this post by daniel bip

I move mine pics the same way. No issues.

Daniel, do you have write access the folder where .db files are ?

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

-------- Original message --------

From: Anders Lund <[hidden email]>

Date: 2017-04-24 7:26 AM (GMT-07:00)

To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>

Subject: Re: Fwd: Information lost