<div dir="auto"><div>Thank you<div dir="auto"><br></div>More below<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri 27 Nov, 2020, 00:02 Dougie Nisbet, <<a href="mailto:dougie@katsura.uk">dougie@katsura.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>I've just recovered a friends photos using testdisk / photoroc.
It's amazing. 120GB of images from a USB drive that the computer
shop said was unrecoverable.</p></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto">I agree it's a totally awesome software and have helped a few friends recover important pictures too.</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><p> </p></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><p></p></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><p></p></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><p>She doesn't use tags but I copied a
few into my image directory and assigned a couple using exiftool
and digikam picked them up ok. I tried changing ownership to root
too.<br>
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<p>I wonder if it's worth using exiftool on a few of your images (it
may already be installed on Linux Mint) to see how the tags are
stored. Something like</p>
<p>exiftool -r * | grep Tags</p>
<p>or just exiftool <filename> | less</p>
<p>might give a picture of whether the tags are stored in strange
fields.</p></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto">I will try this and let you know.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Ram</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>
<p>Dougie<br>
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<div>On 26/11/2020 09:54, Ramnarayan.K
Digikam wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi</div>
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<div>Some, many, months ago I accidentally formatted my image
hard disk. More than a TB's worth.</div>
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<div>It took many days of running testdisk / photorec to
recover the images. <br>
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<div>The recovered images all lost their original names and
are now in multiple (100's) of folders named by testdisk /
photorec<br>
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<div>Since then I have pointed <span>digikam</span>
to the recovered images (On a new Hard disk) and am also
placing my new images in the same section.</div>
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<div><span>Digikam</span> has picked up the
tags that were / are in the recovered images, it has also
organized them by date (from exif data). <br>
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<div><b>However while I can browse by date I cannot browse by
Tags. </b><br>
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<div>I have used the "read tags " from images - and this also
took a tonne load of time but it generated all the tags
(seemingly) but it shows no images in any tag category.</div>
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<div>Kindly advice.</div>
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<div>My images are on external USB portable drive. And I open
<span>digikam</span> only after attaching
the drive</div>
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<div>Current OS and <span>Digikam</span> Specs
are</div>
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<div>Linux Mint 20 (Ulyana) <br>
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<div><span>Digikam</span> Version 6.4.0<br>
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<div>Look forward to you advice</div>
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<div>thanks</div>
<div>Ram</div>
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