My Albums missing?

[DIL23-2]

Hello
Wonder if anyone can help?
I'm using v0.9.2-final. All files on camera are found and successfully
downloaded to a new album of my choosing and the all go into
~/Pictures/*
The weird thing is that it can find my 'old' albums there and display them in
the My Albums sidebar list (by date, folder, whatever) the new files are
there too but it never shows them in digikam only on the filesystem! If I try
to import the folder it complains that it already exists, the same if I try
re-downloading from camera etc.

I've been thru all the settings and can't see anything obvious, tried
rebuiding metadata, thumbnails etc but it doesn't seem to see the folders on
the filesystem.

So any help would be great - thanks in advance.
DIL23
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> Wonder if anyone can help?
> I'm using v0.9.2-final. All files on camera are found and successfully
> downloaded to a new album of my choosing and the all go into
> ~/Pictures/*
> The weird thing is that it can find my 'old' albums there and display
> them in the My Albums sidebar list (by date, folder, whatever) the new
> files are there too but it never shows them in digikam only on the
> filesystem! If I try to import the folder it complains that it already
> exists, the same if I try re-downloading from camera etc.
>
> I've been thru all the settings and can't see anything obvious, tried
> rebuiding metadata, thumbnails etc but it doesn't seem to see the
> folders on the filesystem.
>
> So any help would be great - thanks in advance.
> DIL23

If I understand correctly your root album is ~/Pictures and imported
pictures are like ~/Pictures/*.jpg ? digiKam doesn't see them. They have
to be in album one level "lower".

If I didn't understand correctly what about file type, are they in list
of acceptable file extensions?

Third: try to upgrade to 0.9.3, released on 23th.

m.

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[dil23]

Hi

Sorry should have been more clear!
Yes - they're all in sub-folders of ~/Pictures/

ie
~/Pictures/Holidays
~/Pictures/Family/kids

etc etc

and if I import all the JPEGs (which appears in the filetype list) from
anywhere camera/folders/disk etc to a new album that digikam sets up eg
~/Pictures/NewAlbum it creates it on hard disk but it doesn't show anywhere
in digikam!!??!!

 Then if I try to create a new album from menu/taskbar and attempt to call it
NewAlbum digikam complains that the "Album" already exists and do I want to
replace it (I don't) but I would like to be able to see it!!!!

Usually try to keep up to date with releases so will look out for 0.9.3
Thanks for taking time out to reply.
DIL23
:)
On Thursday 27 December 2007 21:55:16 Mikolaj Machowski wrote:

> > Wonder if anyone can help?
> > I'm using v0.9.2-final. All files on camera are found and successfully
> > downloaded to a new album of my choosing and the all go into
> > ~/Pictures/*
> > The weird thing is that it can find my 'old' albums there and display
> > them in the My Albums sidebar list (by date, folder, whatever) the new
> > files are there too but it never shows them in digikam only on the
> > filesystem! If I try to import the folder it complains that it already
> > exists, the same if I try re-downloading from camera etc.
> >
> > I've been thru all the settings and can't see anything obvious, tried
> > rebuiding metadata, thumbnails etc but it doesn't seem to see the
> > folders on the filesystem.
> >
> > So any help would be great - thanks in advance.
> > DIL23
>
> If I understand correctly your root album is ~/Pictures and imported
> pictures are like ~/Pictures/*.jpg ? digiKam doesn't see them. They have
> to be in album one level "lower".
>
> If I didn't understand correctly what about file type, are they in list
> of acceptable file extensions?
>
> Third: try to upgrade to 0.9.3, released on 23th.
>
> m.
>
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[Gerhard Kulzer-3]

Am Thursday 27 December 2007 schrieb dil23:

> Hi
>
> Sorry should have been more clear!
> Yes - they're all in sub-folders of ~/Pictures/
>
> ie
> ~/Pictures/Holidays
> ~/Pictures/Family/kids
>
> etc etc
>
> and if I import all the JPEGs (which appears in the filetype list) from
> anywhere camera/folders/disk etc to a new album that digikam sets up eg
> ~/Pictures/NewAlbum it creates it on hard disk but it doesn't show anywhere
> in digikam!!??!!
>
>  Then if I try to create a new album from menu/taskbar and attempt to call
> it NewAlbum digikam complains that the "Album" already exists and do I want
> to replace it (I don't) but I would like to be able to see it!!!!
>
> Usually try to keep up to date with releases so will look out for 0.9.3
> Thanks for taking time out to reply.
> DIL23
>
> :)
>

It is hard to imagine what the problem could be, anyway, this is not a general

error of digikam, as it works fine in many installations.

Do you see your images in calendar view?
Did you try rescanning the album (tools->scan for new images)?
Are the file types still in the mime-type list (setting->mime types? If not,
reset them by clicking the right-end refresh icon.

Gerhard

> On Thursday 27 December 2007 21:55:16 Mikolaj Machowski wrote:
> > > Wonder if anyone can help?
> > > I'm using v0.9.2-final. All files on camera are found and successfully
> > > downloaded to a new album of my choosing and the all go into
> > > ~/Pictures/*
> > > The weird thing is that it can find my 'old' albums there and display
> > > them in the My Albums sidebar list (by date, folder, whatever) the new
> > > files are there too but it never shows them in digikam only on the
> > > filesystem! If I try to import the folder it complains that it already
> > > exists, the same if I try re-downloading from camera etc.
> > >
> > > I've been thru all the settings and can't see anything obvious, tried
> > > rebuiding metadata, thumbnails etc but it doesn't seem to see the
> > > folders on the filesystem.
> > >
> > > So any help would be great - thanks in advance.
> > > DIL23
> >
> > If I understand correctly your root album is ~/Pictures and imported
> > pictures are like ~/Pictures/*.jpg ? digiKam doesn't see them. They have
> > to be in album one level "lower".
> >
> > If I didn't understand correctly what about file type, are they in list
> > of acceptable file extensions?
> >
> > Third: try to upgrade to 0.9.3, released on 23th.
> >
> > m.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Digikam-users mailing list
> > [hidden email]
> > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users

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[DIL23-2]

Hi all

Well I did a rather drastic solution to this problem (I'm a linux newbie!) -
which probably won't help anyone at all - but just in case there are others
as impatient as me.......;-)

I found the digikam database (I used

find / -name digikam*.db* -type -f

at a command line (which if I'm right means look everywhere for a FILE
the -type f bit, named digikam-anything.db-anything)

 which I discovered is a SQLite database and had a look using SQLiteman and it
didn't seem to have all the albums there. (there must be something somewhere
tricking it into thinking they are because digikam wouldn't let me create
albums with the same name?) So not understanding SQLite databases I gave up!
and simply renamed the digikam database (just in case!!!) and restarted
digikam and digikam rebuilt all the albums (under it's album directory in the
filesystem) with a new database.

So now I can see all my albums again!

I would obviously urge extreme caution using this approach! Having really just
started in the world of digital photography and digikam I hadn't made any
ratings, comments etc etc which I presume would all have been lost if I had
any!!!

If anyone knows of any links or manuals for the digikam SQLite database (or a
handy query repository?) I'd be grateful.

DIL23
:)

> Re: [Digikam-users] My Albums missing?
> From:
> hex <[hidden email]>  (DIL23)
>   To:
> Mikolaj Machowski <[hidden email]>
>   Date:
> 2007-12-28 15:05
> (...apologies - I sent my first reply from the wrong email account and it
> came back rejected!)
>
> Hi
>
> Sorry should have been more clear!
> Yes - they're all in sub-folders of ~/Pictures/
>
> ie
> ~/Pictures/Holidays
> ~/Pictures/Family/kids
>
> etc etc
>
> and if I import all the JPEGs (which appear in the filetype list) from
> anywhere camera/folders/disk etc to a new album that digikam sets up eg
> ~/Pictures/NewAlbum it creates it on hard disk but it doesn't show anywhere
> in digikam!!??!!
>
>  Then if I try to create a new album from menu/taskbar and attempt to call
> it NewAlbum digikam complains that the "Album" already exists and do I want
> to replace it (I don't) but I would like to be able to see it!!!!
>
> Usually try to keep up to date with releases so will look out for 0.9.3
> Thanks for taking time out to reply.
> DIL23
>
> :)On Thursday 27 December 2007 21:54:38 you wrote:

> > Wonder if anyone can help?
> > I'm using v0.9.2-final. All files on camera are found and successfully
> > downloaded to a new album of my choosing and the all go into
> > ~/Pictures/*
> > The weird thing is that it can find my 'old' albums there and display
> > them in the My Albums sidebar list (by date, folder, whatever) the new
> > files are there too but it never shows them in digikam only on the
> > filesystem! If I try to import the folder it complains that it already
> > exists, the same if I try re-downloading from camera etc.
> >
> > I've been thru all the settings and can't see anything obvious, tried
> > rebuiding metadata, thumbnails etc but it doesn't seem to see the
> > folders on the filesystem.
> >
> > So any help would be great - thanks in advance.
> > DIL23
>
> If I understand correctly your root album is ~/Pictures and imported
> pictures are like ~/Pictures/*.jpg ? digiKam doesn't see them. They have
> to be in album one level "lower".
>
> If I didn't understand correctly what about file type, are they in list
> of acceptable file extensions?
>
> Third: try to upgrade to 0.9.3, released on 23th.
>
> m.

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[Arnd Baecker]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, hex wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Well I did a rather drastic solution to this problem (I'm a linux newbie!) -
> which probably won't help anyone at all - but just in case there are others
> as impatient as me.......;-)
>
> I found the digikam database (I used
>
> find / -name digikam*.db* -type -f
>
> at a command line (which if I'm right means look everywhere for a FILE
> the -type f bit, named digikam-anything.db-anything)
>
>  which I discovered is a SQLite database and had a look using SQLiteman and it
> didn't seem to have all the albums there. (there must be something somewhere
> tricking it into thinking they are because digikam wouldn't let me create
> albums with the same name?) So not understanding SQLite databases I gave up!
> and simply renamed the digikam database (just in case!!!) and restarted
> digikam and digikam rebuilt all the albums (under it's album directory in the
> filesystem) with a new database.
>
> So now I can see all my albums again!

Great! (No idea what screwed up things though)

> I would obviously urge extreme caution using this approach! Having really just
> started in the world of digital photography and digikam I hadn't made any
> ratings, comments etc etc which I presume would all have been lost if I had
> any!!!

Yes, they would be lost (unless you configured
digikam to store tags and ratings in the files themselves, see
http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/using-setup.html#setup-embeddedinfo

> If anyone knows of any links or manuals for the digikam SQLite database (or a
> handy query repository?) I'd be grateful.

The database scheme is documented in
  http://websvn.kde.org/branches/extragear/kde3/graphics/digikam/DBSCHEMA.ODS?view=log
(and for the upcoming 0.10 for KDE4 see
  http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/graphics/digikam/DBSCHEMA.ODS?view=log
 the release plan is here:
  http://www.digikam.org/?q=about/releaseplan
)

 cdigi: command line and service menu tool to extract data from Digikam
sqlite database and produce nice HTML galleries.
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=15103
might be helpful.

Concerning a collection of queries: we don't have such thing
right now, but I think it would be a very welcome addition
to the wiki,
  http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=digikam

Best, Arnd

> > Re: [Digikam-users] My Albums missing?
> > From:
> > hex <[hidden email]>  (DIL23)
> >   To:
> > Mikolaj Machowski <[hidden email]>
> >   Date:
> > 2007-12-28 15:05
> > (...apologies - I sent my first reply from the wrong email account and it
> > came back rejected!)
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > Sorry should have been more clear!
> > Yes - they're all in sub-folders of ~/Pictures/
> >
> > ie
> > ~/Pictures/Holidays
> > ~/Pictures/Family/kids
> >
> > etc etc
> >
> > and if I import all the JPEGs (which appear in the filetype list) from
> > anywhere camera/folders/disk etc to a new album that digikam sets up eg
> > ~/Pictures/NewAlbum it creates it on hard disk but it doesn't show anywhere
> > in digikam!!??!!
> >
> >  Then if I try to create a new album from menu/taskbar and attempt to call
> > it NewAlbum digikam complains that the "Album" already exists and do I want
> > to replace it (I don't) but I would like to be able to see it!!!!
> >
> > Usually try to keep up to date with releases so will look out for 0.9.3
> > Thanks for taking time out to reply.
> > DIL23
> >
> > :)On Thursday 27 December 2007 21:54:38 you wrote:
>
> > > Wonder if anyone can help?
> > > I'm using v0.9.2-final. All files on camera are found and successfully
> > > downloaded to a new album of my choosing and the all go into
> > > ~/Pictures/*
> > > The weird thing is that it can find my 'old' albums there and display
> > > them in the My Albums sidebar list (by date, folder, whatever) the new
> > > files are there too but it never shows them in digikam only on the
> > > filesystem! If I try to import the folder it complains that it already
> > > exists, the same if I try re-downloading from camera etc.
> > >
> > > I've been thru all the settings and can't see anything obvious, tried
> > > rebuiding metadata, thumbnails etc but it doesn't seem to see the
> > > folders on the filesystem.
> > >
> > > So any help would be great - thanks in advance.
> > > DIL23
> >
> > If I understand correctly your root album is ~/Pictures and imported
> > pictures are like ~/Pictures/*.jpg ? digiKam doesn't see them. They have
> > to be in album one level "lower".
> >
> > If I didn't understand correctly what about file type, are they in list
> > of acceptable file extensions?
> >
> > Third: try to upgrade to 0.9.3, released on 23th.
> >
> > m.

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