<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Point taken, I'll look into this over the weekend and backup. Thanks.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>As suggested I searched for digikam and found the .db file still exists on the disk. Before I started messing with files I re-boot the PC and guess what Digikam now works OK. So what went wrong I've no idea.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Thanks for everyone's suggestions.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Daniel.<br></span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Paul Verizzo <paulv@paulv.net><br><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> digikam-users@kde.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, 1 October 2011, 13:32<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Digikam-users] Database lost<br></font><br>Three words to live by in the digital age:<br><br>1. Backup!<br>2. Backup!<br>3. Backup!<br><br>There is no such thing as too many backups! I used to do the old usual second disk thing using DOS-like XXCOPY.EXE. using it's clone function. Then I kept a third disk in my Jeep, updating as I remembered. Why? Once you have a house fire you get very paranoid about irreplaceable losses. So, one on-site backup, one off-site.<br><br>I no longer do the Jeep backup, although when I travel I do take an entire, freshly backed up hard drive with me, usually. For the last three years I've used Carbonite, $55/yr, which automatically backs up selected
folders or files................like my digiKam database! While Carbonite may well have all my data stored, if I ever needed to recover everything, it would take several weeks, probably, to do so, even with high speed internet. Having my own hard drive would speed that up.<br><br>This is a topic that I repeatedly preach about, both to friends and in my classes. Having had a large box of important family photos ALMOST become ash in that fire - all those singed prints and slides are a great prop in my classes - as the Beatles sang, "I'm a believer........"<br><br>OK, I'm stepping off of my soapbox.<br><br>Paul<br>_______________________________________________<br>Digikam-users mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Digikam-users@kde.org" href="mailto:Digikam-users@kde.org">Digikam-users@kde.org</a><br><a href="https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users"
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