how to import old Database in new Digikam?

[Peter Aschenberger]

Hello,

I have updated my system to a brand new Sidux (Debian Sid) and Digikam 1.0.0.
Beforhand I used the Version 0.9.4 and I haven't changed the file-hirarchy of
the pics. The question is: How do I get my comments and tags, that I made
under 0.9.4 into the new version?


best greets and many thanks for this fantatastic program
Peter Aschenberger

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[Tim Jenness]

Digikam 1.0.0 should find the digikam3.db file in the directory that you nominated to write the database file and it should create a new digikam4.db database derivd from it. This "just worked" for me (I write all metadata to images anyhow, but videos imported with all tags and comments retained). I will note that it doesn't seem to say anywhere in the readme that digikam will automatically update an older database.

Tim

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Peter Aschenberger <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hello,

I have updated my system to a brand new Sidux (Debian Sid) and Digikam 1.0.0.
Beforhand I used the Version 0.9.4 and I haven't changed the file-hirarchy of
the pics. The question is: How do I get my comments and tags, that I made
under 0.9.4 into the new version?


best greets and many thanks for this fantatastic program
Peter Aschenberger

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[Marcel Wiesweg]

> Hello,
>
> I have updated my system to a brand new Sidux (Debian Sid) and Digikam
> 1.0.0. Beforhand I used the Version 0.9.4 and I haven't changed the
> file-hirarchy of the pics. The question is: How do I get my comments and
> tags, that I made under 0.9.4 into the new version?

If you have a brand new system you probably dont have the config file of the
old digikam which helps finding the old file. I also assume you have already
started digikam 1.0-betax once. Then you can change in the setup the database
directory to the old file hierarchy. digikam will prompt you about finding the
old database, choose to upgrade.
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[Sven Sandin-3]

Hi,

I had big problems converting from 0.9.3 to 0.10 as the album properties with
comments, tags, date and album thumbnails were lost. Everything else worked.
An advice is to keep a backup of the digikam3.db file. I finally managed
after a lot of trial and error. For me the trick was to have digikam
overwriting the old digikam3 file using the old directory instead of storing
it in a new directory. Not sure why! Also, the digikam4.db file was 10 MB
compared with 3 MB of the origianl digikam3.db.

Sven

On Sunday 16 August 2009 11:02:46 Peter Aschenberger wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have updated my system to a brand new Sidux (Debian Sid) and Digikam
> 1.0.0. Beforhand I used the Version 0.9.4 and I haven't changed the
> file-hirarchy of the pics. The question is: How do I get my comments and
> tags, that I made under 0.9.4 into the new version?
>
>
> best greets and many thanks for this fantatastic program
> Peter Aschenberger
>
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[Peter Aschenberger]

OK, I have made the first step: Digikam has found the old database and
imported the tags and comments.

But the pics are not assigned with the comments and the tags. So, I have all
of the metadata but without any connection to the pics. How can I fix that?

Or is it a solution to write the metadata into the pictures with the old
digikam-version? How can I do that?

Best regards
Peter Aschenberger



Am Sonntag 16 August 2009 19:25:59 schrieb Tim Jenness:
> Digikam 1.0.0 should find the digikam3.db file in the directory that you
> nominated to write the database file and it should create a new digikam4.db
> database derivd from it. This "just worked" for me (I write all metadata to
> images anyhow, but videos imported with all tags and comments retained). I
> will note that it doesn't seem to say anywhere in the readme that digikam
> will automatically update an older database.
>
> Tim
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[Marcel Wiesweg]

> For me the trick was to have
> digikam overwriting the old digikam3 file using the old directory instead
> of storing it in a new directory. Not sure why!

Because digikam 0.9 always stored the database in the same directory as the
pictures referred to. No other way to find the pictures


> Also, the digikam4.db file
> was 10 MB compared with 3 MB of the origianl digikam3.db.

That's true the new one is bigger. Stores much more information.
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[Peter Aschenberger]

Am Dienstag 18 August 2009 18:00:50 schrieb Marcel Wiesweg:
> > For me the trick was to have
> > digikam overwriting the old digikam3 file using the old directory instead
> > of storing it in a new directory. Not sure why!
>
> Because digikam 0.9 always stored the database in the same directory as the
> pictures referred to. No other way to find the pictures

I have done that and digikam imported the old database, at least partly. But
the pictures has no tags and no comments. How can I solve that?

Best regards
Peter
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[Marcel Wiesweg]

> I have done that and digikam imported the old database, at least partly.
> But the pictures has no tags and no comments. How can I solve that?
>

I dont know, I have never heard of such problems. Are there any error messages
on the console when converting?
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[Peter Aschenberger]

Am Dienstag 18 August 2009 22:05:20 schrieb Marcel Wiesweg:
> > I have done that and digikam imported the old database, at least partly.
> > But the pictures has no tags and no comments. How can I solve that?
>
> I dont know, I have never heard of such problems. Are there any error
> messages on the console when converting?

I tried it once more today with the same result.

How can I store the tags and the comments into the pictures with my old
digikam-version ( 0.9.4 ) ? Then they should finally apear in the new version,
or not?

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Peter Aschenberger
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[Tim Jenness]

Configure digikam to write the tags to the files from the database ("Synchronize images with database") in the main menu. This will write tags to Jpegs but won't work for movies or raw files.

Tim

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Peter Aschenberger <[hidden email]> wrote:

Am Dienstag 18 August 2009 22:05:20 schrieb Marcel Wiesweg:

> > I have done that and digikam imported the old database, at least partly.
> > But the pictures has no tags and no comments. How can I solve that?
>
> I dont know, I have never heard of such problems. Are there any error
> messages on the console when converting?

I tried it once more today with the same result.

How can I store the tags and the comments into the pictures with my old
digikam-version ( 0.9.4 ) ? Then they should finally apear in the new version,
or not?

Best regards
Peter Aschenberger

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[Peter Aschenberger]

Am Samstag 22 August 2009 03:40:27 schrieb Tim Jenness:
> Configure digikam to write the tags to the files from the database
> ("Synchronize images with database") in the main menu. This will write tags
> to Jpegs but won't work for movies or raw files.

I tried that but every times I try to synchronize the image with the database
Digikam 0.9.4 crashes immediatly. The information at the console are not very
informative:
beda@Desk-01:~$ digikam
Found dcraw version: 8.83
KCrash: Application 'digikam' crashing...
beda@Desk-01:~$

Are there any possibilities to convert the Database by hand?


Best regards
Peter

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[Sven Sandin-3]

A had exactly the same problem(s) earlier. Using suse 10.3 with a mix of kde3 and kde4 installed. Tried with Sidux with the same problems.

With the help of another thread in this list I opened the sqllite-database and browsed the information stored. It may be reassuring to see the information (both picture tags/date/descriptions AND album tags/date/descriptions) are still there in the database. I was concerned they were entierly lost.

After several tries It suddendly worked getting the albums meta data into digikam! Not sure why.

Digikam crash when syncronizing pictures and database data may be (it was for me) problem with permissione. Set the permission on the root level and for all sub-directories and files.

Sven

--- Den lör 2009-08-22 skrev Peter Aschenberger <[hidden email]>:

> Från: Peter Aschenberger <[hidden email]>
> Ämne: Re: [Digikam-users] how to import old Database in new Digikam?
> Till: "digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source" <[hidden email]>
> Datum: lördag 22 augusti 2009 12.08
> Am Samstag 22 August 2009 03:40:27
> schrieb Tim Jenness:
> > Configure digikam to write the tags to the files from
> the database
> > ("Synchronize images with database") in the main menu.
> This will write tags
> > to Jpegs but won't work for movies or raw files.
>
> I tried that but every times I try to synchronize the image
> with the database
> Digikam 0.9.4 crashes immediatly. The information at the
> console are not very
> informative:
> beda@Desk-01:~$ digikam
> Found dcraw version: 8.83
> KCrash: Application 'digikam' crashing...
> beda@Desk-01:~$
>
> Are there any possibilities to convert the Database by
> hand?
>
>
> Best regards
> Peter
>
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[Peter Aschenberger]

Am Samstag 22 August 2009 12:08:39 schrieb Peter Aschenberger:
> Am Samstag 22 August 2009 03:40:27 schrieb Tim Jenness:
> > Configure digikam to write the tags to the files from the database
> > ("Synchronize images with database") in the main menu. This will write
> > tags to Jpegs but won't work for movies or raw files.

I downgraded the old digikam system to the Version 0.8.2 and that version
looks a lot more stable on my system. I checked the option to store the
comments into the image and the prog doesn't crash. Can this program store
also the tags inside the images? And how can I synchronize all images with
the database?

Best regards
Peter
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