<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi Anders,<br><br></div>Do you move folders the same way I move them (from level1 to level2) or from level1 to level1?<br><br></div><div>I do:<br><br></div>From: repository\folder1\pictures.JPG<br></div>To: repository\folder2\folder1\pictures.JPG<br><br></div>Thanks for your feedback<br><br></div>BR,<br><br><br></div>d.<br><br><div><div><br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 April 2017 at 06:26, Anders Lund <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@alweb.dk" target="_blank">anders@alweb.dk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">søndag den 23. april <a href="tel:2017%2023.49.28" value="+12017234928">2017 23.49.28</a> 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\)<wbr>. When I do so it's<br>
> when I loose all the information...<br>
<br>
</span>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, as<br>
the files are mostly CR2s).<br>
<br>
Kindly,<br>
Anders<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
> Thanks.<br>
><br>
> BR,<br>
><br>
><br>
> d.<br>
><br>
> On 23 April 2017 at 23:23, Andrey Goreev <<a href="mailto:aegoreev@gmail.com">aegoreev@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > I always move pictures around. I have also regenerated the .db file for my<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 here<br>
> > who wrote a python script that recovers some certain information from sql<br>
> > database and writes it to image files. I would try searching by "sql"<br>
> > "python" "script" keywords here:<br>
> > <a href="http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://digikam.1695700.n4.<wbr>nabble.com/</a><br>
> ><br>
> > Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.<br>
> ><br>
> > -------- Original message --------<br>
> > From: daniel bip <<a href="mailto:daniel.mail.public@gmail.com">daniel.mail.public@gmail.com</a>><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 <<a href="mailto:digikam-users@kde.org">digikam-users@kde.org</a>><br>
> > Subject: Fwd: Information lost<br>
> ><br>
> > Hi there,<br>
> ><br>
> > One week ago I sent the mail below, getting no answer. It probably didn't<br>
> > get to the list...<br>
> ><br>
> > May someone help? Is it normal to loose all the information when moving<br>
> > one directory into another one? Any way to recover the information from<br>
> > SQL? I saw it contains a field called Status which seems to keep track of<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 <<a href="mailto:daniel.mail.public@gmail.com">daniel.mail.public@gmail.com</a>><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 <<a href="mailto:digikam-users@kde.org">digikam-users@kde.org</a>><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 wanted<br>
> > all those folders to be inside another one, and moved them all (movement<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 by<br>
> > rating another picture in that folder and moving the whole folder to a new<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 it<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 folders<br>
> > mounted in Ubuntu.<br>
> ><br>
> > BR...<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > d.<br>
<br>
<br>
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