<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Arial'; font-size:10pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;"><p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>> As I didn't receive answers I'm reposting my problem here to see if you<br>
> have even a partial solution:<br>
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> * I still can't add new albums and/or photos and the most recent pictures<br>
> aren't visible altough they are in the disk.<br>
> * Digikam reports files in the database which are not in the disk, I accept<br>
> to delete them but next time that digikam is started the same report<br>
> appears.<br>
> * Error msgs starting digikam in the console:<br>
><br>
> QDate::fromString: Parameter out of range<br>
> Warning: Makernote: Pointer to next IFD is out of bounds; ignored.<br>
> Error: Directory Iop with 8224 entries considered invalid; not read.<br>
> Warning: IFD1: Pointer to next IFD is out of bounds; ignored.<br>
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But it seems digikam is scanning pictures. Write access to db file is all right? But that would give error messages anyway.<br>
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> Versions: Qt: 3.3.8b KDE: 3.5.10 digiKam: 0.9.5-beta3<br>
> (Debian packages, ext3 filesystem)<br>
><br>
> Now, I can only think of a few alternatives.<br>
> a) Waiting for the next Debian package of digikam to see if it works.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Use digikam-0.10.0 is my first suggestion<br>
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> digikam.db enough??) losing hundreds of tags and comments but at least<br>
> keeping my photos and being able to use the program again.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Try just moving digikam3.db. Then you wont lose anything.<br>
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> etc) and trying to use another program (I consider them worse but they may<br>
> work for me).<br>
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> Any ideas to keep as much as possible of the database and making digikam<br>
> reconstruct it?<br>
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> Thanks again for your help.<br>
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