<html><head></head><body><span class="viv-signature"></span><div>I answered
my own question. </div><div><br></div><div>The following fixed
it: </div><div> <back up
digikam.db> </div><div>sqlite3 digikam.db</div><div><span
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</font></span><span style="color: var(--quoteLvl1); font-family: monospace;
font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;">update AlbumRoots set
identifier = 'volumeid:?uuid=4FA9....' where id = 1;</span><br><span
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</span>I suspect that a recent macos update force the encryption of local
volumes. I further suspect the drives were relabeled at that point.
At any rate, all appears well.<span style="color: rgb(249, 255, 255);
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</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(249, 255, 255); font-family:
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background-color: rgb(27, 28, 36);"><br></span></div><div>On Thursday,
September 7, 2023 11:22:57 (-04:00), Bill Allen
wrote:<br></div><div><br></div><div>> System is macos, digikam installed
with homebrew. Everything normally works great, but at times which I
believe are associated with system updates, digikam can no longer find my
album. This has happened in the past, and I've been able to correct it, but
it's been a while and either I can't remember how I did it (it seems like
it was as simple as telling digikam where the files are at the startup
dialog, but this time that didn't help) or something else is wrong. The
files are there, I can look at them using normal file
utilities.<br></div><div>> <br></div><div>> Using sqlite3, I looked
at the table AlbumRoots and everything looks correct except the identifier
field which has "volumeid:?uuid=5908...", where when I look at the macos
disk utility, I see that my local hard drive has a uuid "4FA9......". Is
this the problem? If so, how can I fix it without triggering a full rescan
of my photos? If that isn't the problem, where can I look to fix it?
<br></div><div>> Best regards,<br></div><div>>
Bill<br></div><div>> <br></div><div>> <br></div><div>>
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