Re: Setting lost after basic cleanup?

Posted by Gerhard on
URL: http://digikam.185.s1.nabble.com/digiKam-users-Setting-lost-after-basic-cleanup-tp4716375p4716578.html

Hi,

so, as conlusion for first incident, i assume my "cleanup" deleted local conifg file accidentially.

But now again, i "lost" settings (path to file collection/ root album). What i basically did:

• moved folder with all collections/fotos to a  new usb drive (from a usb drive with flaky internal connector board)
• ordered drive letters to match same letter as befor, (with new drive having different patition scheme, and different drive names)
  

DigiKam did not find previos collection path (like f:/digiKam), and started without collection. When i looked  for config files then, there were brand new timestamps for configuration files under %userprofil%/appdata/local. Path to DB files (a local path)  was still known and valid.

How can this occure?  As i  mentioned, old drive had bad connector, and dissaperared occasionally. I probably may have started digikam without having  any of old or new drive connected. Does this "reset" collections path?

At the end, there was no loss of tagging, faces and such. Yust some time to reload root album rsb. file collection. I've added  path for removable drive again, and scan found everything then.

One thing else to mention: setup for  adding new removable drive did know old folder name (same as new one), but did not show a path, so i deletet this entry, after new entry did showup all expectet data. This behaviour is somewhat unclear to me.

Am 07.05.2021 um 00:18 schrieb KRODER Gerhard:

Hi,

having done a cleanup on c: drive (by system, on drive properties, general tab, "cleanup"), Digikam /.2 does not findany previous image collections, dato or settings, on restart. Just as if it was a new installation. How could this happen? I had many restarts without this issue.

Any idea?

Cheeers, Gerhard.