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<div><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">18 March 2023</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 13.8px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">All right. I've broken DigiKam once again.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 13.8px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">I wish I knew how I do this so I can avoid doing it. It has been more than a year since the last time it broke, and I can't remember how to fix it. And I don't think it broke the same way.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 13.8px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">I'm working in Windows 10 using SQLite. I recently updated from DigiKam 7.7.0 to 7.9.0 to see if that would fix the problem. It did not. I had to manually update exiftool from 12.42 to 12.58.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 13.8px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Symptom: adding tags to images appears to work, but the progress bar for "Writing metadata to file:" stays at 0% and never finishes. Thumbnail images don't display. Images can be seen in preview. DigiKam app says it is not responding.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 13.8px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Efforts: rebooted Windows. Restored database files to previous version (only two days ago was available).</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 13.8px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Have I corrupted the database files? Can I get Digikam to rebuild them? Are all 4-5 of them compromised? What is my best course of action?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 13.8px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Thanks for all of your collective knowledge & assistance.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Nadine H</span></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br></div>
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