<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>I am assuming that both /Photos and /Bigdisk are being digiKam collections, correct ?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.</div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Anders Lund <anders@alweb.dk> </div><div>Date: 2017-04-24 7:20 AM (GMT-07:00) </div><div>To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <digikam-users@kde.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: Fwd: Information lost </div><div><br></div></div>mandag den 24. april 2017 13.35.12 CEST skrev daniel bip:<br>> Hi Anders,<br>> <br>> Do you move folders the same way I move them (from level1 to level2) or<br>> from level1 to level1?<br>> <br>> I do:<br>> <br>> From: repository\folder1\pictures.JPG<br>> To: repository\folder2\folder1\pictures.JPG<br><br><br>My typical action is to drag<br><br>/Photos/2017/<folder> to /Bigdisk/2017/<br><br>This moves a folder (containing subfolders) to an external drive.<br><br>Kindly,<br>Anders<br><br><br>> <br>> Thanks for your feedback<br>> <br>> BR,<br>> <br>> <br>> d.<br>> <br>> On 24 April 2017 at 06:26, Anders Lund <anders@alweb.dk> wrote:<br>> > søndag den 23. april 2017 23.49.28 CEST skrev daniel bip:<br>> > > Andrey,<br>> > > <br>> > > Thanks for your reply. Have you ever moved an entire folder into another<br>> > > one? (the folder itself, not the images of that folfer:<br>> > > \\repository\folder1\ -> \\repository\folder2\folder1\). When I do so<br>> > <br>> > it's<br>> > <br>> > > when I loose all the information...<br>> > <br>> > Hi Andrey,<br>> > <br>> > I move folders from a collection on my laptop to one on my external disk<br>> > regularly, without loosing metadata (which is stored in the dk database,<br>> > as<br>> > the files are mostly CR2s).<br>> > <br>> > Kindly,<br>> > Anders<br>> > <br>> > > Thanks.<br>> > > <br>> > > BR,<br>> > > <br>> > > <br>> > > d.<br>> > > <br>> > > On 23 April 2017 at 23:23, Andrey Goreev <aegoreev@gmail.com> wrote:<br>> > > > I always move pictures around. I have also regenerated the .db file<br>> > <br>> > for my<br>> > <br>> > > > collection on a freshly system few times. Never lost a thing.<br>> > > > So I don't think it is normal to lose your info when moving photos.<br>> > > > As for the second question (recovering from SQL), there was someone<br>> > <br>> > here<br>> > <br>> > > > who wrote a python script that recovers some certain information from<br>> > <br>> > sql<br>> > <br>> > > > database and writes it to image files. I would try searching by "sql"<br>> > > > "python" "script" keywords here:<br>> > > > http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/<br>> > > > <br>> > > > Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.<br>> > > > <br>> > > > -------- Original message --------<br>> > > > From: daniel bip <daniel.mail.public@gmail.com><br>> > > > Date: 2017-04-23 1:17 PM (GMT-07:00)<br>> > > > To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the<br>> > > > power of open source <digikam-users@kde.org><br>> > > > Subject: Fwd: Information lost<br>> > > > <br>> > > > Hi there,<br>> > > > <br>> > > > One week ago I sent the mail below, getting no answer. It probably<br>> > <br>> > didn't<br>> > <br>> > > > get to the list...<br>> > > > <br>> > > > May someone help? Is it normal to loose all the information when<br>> > > > moving<br>> > > > one directory into another one? Any way to recover the information<br>> > > > from<br>> > > > SQL? I saw it contains a field called Status which seems to keep track<br>> > <br>> > of<br>> > <br>> > > > changes, if I'm not wrong...<br>> > > > <br>> > > > Thanks in advance.<br>> > > > <br>> > > > BR,<br>> > > > <br>> > > > <br>> > > > d.<br>> > > > <br>> > > > <br>> > > > <br>> > > > <br>> > > > <br>> > > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>> > > > From: daniel bip <daniel.mail.public@gmail.com><br>> > > > Date: 17 April 2017 at 17:49<br>> > > > Subject: Information lost<br>> > > > To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the<br>> > > > power of open source <digikam-users@kde.org><br>> > > > <br>> > > > <br>> > > > Hi there,<br>> > > > <br>> > > > Situation: I had several folders in a given album. I tagged everyone,<br>> > > > rated all my pictures, located them, bla bla bla. Then I decided I<br>> > <br>> > wanted<br>> > <br>> > > > all those folders to be inside another one, and moved them all<br>> > <br>> > (movement<br>> > <br>> > > > done from DK, of course) into that folder.<br>> > > > <br>> > > > Result: all the information is lost. No tags, no starts, no nothing at<br>> > > > all. Tried to Quit and Start DK again. Nothing. Tried to move those<br>> > > > folders<br>> > > > back to the original location. Nothing. Tried to replicate the problem<br>> > <br>> > by<br>> > <br>> > > > rating another picture in that folder and moving the whole folder to a<br>> > <br>> > new<br>> > <br>> > > > location. The information is lost again...<br>> > > > <br>> > > > So.. it seems DK can't handle folders been moved from root album into<br>> > > > another folder, right?<br>> > > > <br>> > > > Is there any way I could try to recover all that information? I guess<br>> > <br>> > it<br>> > <br>> > > > is still in SQLite..<br>> > > > <br>> > > > System: Ubuntu 16.4 Digikam 5.5 from Philip Johnson's PPA running as a<br>> > > > Oracle VM, SQLite as out of the box, pictures stored in Windows<br>> > > > folders<br>> > > > mounted in Ubuntu.<br>> > > > <br>> > > > BR...<br>> > > > <br>> > > > <br>> > > > d.<br><br><br></body></html>