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<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt">digikam 6..0, Win10 x64. MariaDB mysql 10.1<br></p><p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"><b><br></b></p><p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"><b>Session 1: </b>Last night Digikam sat on "Finding new items 34%" for 9 or 10 hours (it read 34% when I went to bed and still at 34% when I can back). The first 30%
only took about 10 or 15 minutes. </p>
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<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt">I have 2 album on an
internal local disk, 150 GB of photos, and 2 albums on a USB SSD drive (200GB,
connected by usb v2). I can browse the external drive and create and remove
files, so the drive is operating normally. </p>
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</p><p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt">I decided to try the
"cancel operation" button, after<span>
</span>a few moments the status bar changed to "No active processes"
so I exited Digikam. In the short pause before DK closed I noticed the Albums panel
was completely empty. <br></p><p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"><br></p><p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"></p><p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"><b>Session 2:</b> On restart I get the message "Error while opening
the database. digiKam will try to automatically reconnect to the
database".<span> </span>(Maria MySQL, as I'm
planning for multiple users on different computers.)</p>
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</p><p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt">I let it spin for
about 5 minutes and then cancelled. There was a succeeding error message that I
failed to capture (Windows gave it keyboard focus while I was typing somewhere
else). After that the DK splash image showed, and that too appeared to get stalled
while "Checking ICC repository…".</p>
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<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-style:italic">Control Panel >> Services</span> didn't show
the mysql service running so I started it.</p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"></p><p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"><br></p><p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"><b>Session 3</b>: I force closed
digikam.exe, verified mysql service still active, and then started digikam
again. It seemed to start normally, showed all my albums, and stated bar
reported "Finding new items" process active again. After about 1
minute it jumped from 0 to 35%, and then a minute later to 36%, and 37% two
minutes after that. <br></p><p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"><br></p><p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt">10 minutes later it was still at 37% so I checked Services: yep, mysql was not running. I restarted the service without touching digikam. Percentage crept up to 38%, and then 39% a few minutes later. <br></p><p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"><br></p><div></div><div><br></div><div>So this where I am now (43%), watching services, prepared to start the mysql service whenever I notice it's stopped again. Clearly this is not a good state to stay in. What should I do to get to a stable place, confident in the integrity of digikam and my photo db?</div><div><br></div><div>-matt<br></div><br><p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt"><br></p>
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