[digiKam-users] Deleted files while renaming - Undo option available?

[Público]

Hello,

I’m getting to know DigiKam since I first started a couple of weeks ago and I’m more than happy so far, so my best congratulations for the development.

I intended to rename my photos in an album since the file name didn’t follow the creation date and time. There was some conflict and I got a message for overwriting or starting again to rename. I first chose overwrite and then restart, but then I cancelled and then a lot of files (I guess those after the conflicting numbers) disappeared and I don’t find them now (nor in the Trash folder).

Is there any possibility to undo an action? Or where I can find them? They are not in my system’s trash either…

Thanks a lot in advance and best regards,

Hardnose

Le 21/08/2019 à 08:00, Público a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> I’m getting to know DigiKam since I first started a couple of weeks ago and I’m more than happy so far, so my best congratulations for the development.

I see you use apple mail, are you on a Mac?

>
> I intended to rename my photos in an album since the file name didn’t follow the creation date and time. There was some conflict and I got a message for overwriting or starting again to rename. I first chose overwrite and then restart, but then I cancelled and then a lot of files (I guess those after the conflicting numbers) disappeared and I don’t find them now (nor in the Trash folder).
>
> Is there any possibility to undo an action? Or where I can find them? They are not in my system’s trash either…

I'm not a Mac user, but a linux one and it should be similar. Digikam
use the underlying system, albums are only system folders. So the local
explorer (not digikam) may show something (logs?).

renaming is usually done like moving, it may be to a hidden file
(.something in linux) or even an nother folder

hope you the best :-(

jdd


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[Maik Qualmann]

If you chose overwrite, these images are actually lost. Now comes the stupid
saying, you can find them in your backup.
I will actually change it to the fact that the images are actually moved to
the digiKam trash. That does not help you now, but for the future.

Maik

Am Mittwoch, 21. August 2019, 08:00:01 CEST schrieb Público:

> Hello,
>
> I’m getting to know DigiKam since I first started a couple of weeks ago and
> I’m more than happy so far, so my best congratulations for the development.
>
> I intended to rename my photos in an album since the file name didn’t follow
> the creation date and time. There was some conflict and I got a message for
> overwriting or starting again to rename. I first chose overwrite and then
> restart, but then I cancelled and then a lot of files (I guess those after
> the conflicting numbers) disappeared and I don’t find them now (nor in the
> Trash folder).
>
> Is there any possibility to undo an action? Or where I can find them? They
> are not in my system’s trash either…
>
> Thanks a lot in advance and best regards,
>
> Hardnose

[Maik Qualmann]

https://invent.kde.org/kde/digikam/commit/
12078edf7236f457728a6915d48da52f4f724251

Maik

Am Mittwoch, 21. August 2019, 12:24:30 CEST schrieben Sie:

> If you chose overwrite, these images are actually lost. Now comes the stupid
> saying, you can find them in your backup.
> I will actually change it to the fact that the images are actually moved to
> the digiKam trash. That does not help you now, but for the future.
>
> Maik
>
> Am Mittwoch, 21. August 2019, 08:00:01 CEST schrieb Público:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I’m getting to know DigiKam since I first started a couple of weeks ago
> > and
> > I’m more than happy so far, so my best congratulations for the
> > development.
> >
> > I intended to rename my photos in an album since the file name didn’t
> > follow the creation date and time. There was some conflict and I got a
> > message for overwriting or starting again to rename. I first chose
> > overwrite and then restart, but then I cancelled and then a lot of files
> > (I guess those after the conflicting numbers) disappeared and I don’t
> > find them now (nor in the Trash folder).
> >
> > Is there any possibility to undo an action? Or where I can find them? They
> > are not in my system’s trash either…
> >
> > Thanks a lot in advance and best regards,
> >
> > Hardnose