<div dir="ltr">Try e.g. ncdu in a terminal to locate your 100G data. Then back up this data without the use of digikam. Once you have a backup, you can go back to trying figure out digikam...</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>-- <br></div>Sent from my mobile device, apologies for typos<br><br></div>PGP key: <span style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2016PGPKEY" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/2016PGPKEY</a></span><br></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 3:25 AM, rutile <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rutile@gmail.com" target="_blank">rutile@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I am travelling, and have a 'new' laptop with Digikam 5.6.0 on Ubuntu 17.10<br>
<br>
Short Version:<br>
After a Digikam glitch, Digikam has restarted as a new installation, and all<br>
my pictures located in the /Pictures folder on the internal SSD card are<br>
missing, but hard drive space is still allocated to them.<br>
<br>
<br>
Long Version:<br>
I have my images and Digikam database in /home/me/Pictures.<br>
I copied the subfolders in my Pictures folders to an external hard drive<br>
(~100 GB), using the file manager. The external hard drive was a database<br>
connection in Digikam as a removable hard drive, originally with a separate<br>
set of images.<br>
<br>
After a short trip, I restarted my computer, and my original file structure<br>
was fine, and Digikam operated as usual. I copied the contents of an SD<br>
card to a new folder created in Digikam, and worked with the pictures after<br>
copying. I then copied the contents of a second SD card to a new folder on<br>
the external hard drive using the file manager. (the last two sentences are<br>
correct to the best of my recollection), while Digikam was still open.<br>
While the files were copying to the external hard drive, I tried to use<br>
Digikam to open an image in the Digikam database in a folder in /Pictures.<br>
Digikam gave an error "cannot open image". I shut digikam, and reopened it,<br>
and Digikam started from scratch with the option to set the database<br>
locations.<br>
<br>
According to the fresh restart of Digikam, and the file manager, my<br>
/home/me/Pictures folder is empty except for newly created Digikam database<br>
files, and a 24.6 kb cache folder (plus empty Presets folder). However, the<br>
available hard drive space shows only 28GB available out of a 256 GB SSD<br>
drive, reflecting the presence of the missing ~100 GB of pictures.<br>
<br>
A folder on the Desktop containing pictures that was also in the Digikam<br>
database is apparently unaffected by this glitch.<br>
<br>
1) Is there anyway to recover the images from my laptop SSD drive? Is<br>
there drive space allocated to the new "digikam trash" somewhere that they<br>
might be hiding? I had not backed up the Digikam database. The copies on<br>
the external hard drive seem to be OK, but now I'm back to just one copy of<br>
the these once in a lifetime images, and that is making me nervous- i'd like<br>
to recover any images from the SSD card, and am trying to limit any writing<br>
to the disk until I resolve this, meaning new images are being only copied<br>
to the external hard drive.<br>
<br>
2) if the images are not recoverable, how do I free up the hard drive space<br>
that is being allocated to them?<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
<br>
<br>
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