<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hello<br></div>I actually downloaded and installed MariaDB when I was migrating my database.<br></div>Everything went smooth.<br></div>I actually did not know that I did not have to do so since digikam has that functionality embedded.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Best regards, <br>Andrey Goreev</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 5:00 AM, Thomas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomasdn@gmail.com" target="_blank">thomasdn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-01-17 9:01 GMT+01:00 Gilles Caulier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com" target="_blank">caulier.gilles@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Which digiKam version do you use ?</div><span><div></div></span></blockquote></div><br><br>Digikam version 5.4.0.</div><div class="gmail_extra">KDE frameworks: 5.29.0</div><div class="gmail_extra">Qt 5.7.0 (built against 5.7.0)</div><div class="gmail_extra">xcb windowing system</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">This is what I do:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Open digikam with my current collection that is using sqlite.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Then open Settings > Database Migration </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Then I do not change anything on left side.</div><div class="gmail_extra">On right side, I change type from SQLIte to MySQL Internal.</div><div class="gmail_extra">I then set the path where I want to store db. (actually I leave it unchanced as ~/Pictures)</div><div class="gmail_extra">Then I look in the box named MySQL binaries. It lists two binaries: mysql_install_db and mysqld. Both have a checkmark on the left.</div><div class="gmail_extra">There is an option to "Change or download". I do not touch these.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Then I click "Migrate ->"</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">And I get the error:</div><div class="gmail_extra">Error while opening the target database.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I have plenty of free space.</div><div class="gmail_extra">There are no permission problems on the folder, etc.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_671154781642049100gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Med venlig hilsen/Kind regards<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>Thomas </font></span></div></div>
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