[Digikam-users] First run and re-scan

Martin (KDE) kde at fahrendorf.de
Wed Jan 25 18:19:04 GMT 2012


Am 25.01.2012 02:29, schrieb Mark Hayes (Hotmail):
> Dear all,
> 
> I've been slowly trying out Digikam for a while, and whilst it is
> undeniably impressive FOSS software, I keep hitting on a problem.
> 
> Every now and again, when I launch the software, Digikam starts all over
> from scratch, re-scans my photos, and seems to set up a new database.
> It's just done it again this week and it's really starting to upset me.
> Each time this happens, I lose my tag structure and all data that was
> only in the database...
> 
> Why does this happen, and how can I recover any lost info, if at all?

Is it possible that you killed the database and digikam starts with a
fresh new one? I once had this problem (long ago with version 0.x).

Martin

> 
> I'm using Kubuntu 11.10 with the standard repository install.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Many thanks.
> 
> Mark.
> 
> 
> 
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