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<p><font face="Calibri">After using it for months, I can't open
digikam at all. After fighting with it for several hours, I've
narrowed it down to a corrupted db file, possibly two.. I've
tried to delete the files and let digikam recreate them, but
they will not be deleted.</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri">Here's where I am:</font></p>
<ul>
<li><font face="Calibri">Windows 11 on an administrator account<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">digikam 8.4.0</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">Photo files are stored in multiple
folders and sub folders within a parent folder (named All
Photos) on an external networked hard drive. The database
files (digikam4.db and digikam4.db-journal) are in the parent
folder. All Photos was created by me. It's not a Pictures
folder that Windows created.<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">File explorer shows that the digikam4.db
file is about 10 MB and the journal file is 0 KB</font></li>
</ul>
<p><font face="Calibri">What I've Tried:<br>
</font></p>
<ul>
<li><font face="Calibri">File explorer, right clicking and
choosing Delete. The "running actions" window will run
indefinitely showing 0% progress.</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">Same step, using run as administrator.
Same result.</font></li>
<li>Uninstalling and reinstalling digikam multiple times,
including numerous reboots. When I tried to uninstall a couple
of times, it told me it could not uninstall because digikam was
already running, even though I had just rebooted the computer
and had not started the program.<br>
</li>
<li><font face="Calibri">I booted into Safe Mode with Networking
but my external drive was not available.</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">Trying to delete it using the command
prompt window<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">Installing the program on a different
computer with identical access to the external hard drive, but
since the corrupted file is in the primary photo folder,
digikam wouldn't start on that computer, either.<br>
</font></li>
</ul>
<p><font face="Calibri">My first computer was a DOS machine, so I'm
pretty comfortable in Command Prompt. I am less familiar with
Windows Terminal, so may need more specific help if that's part
of the path.<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri">The program did exactly what I needed it to
do, albeit a little slowly. </font><font face="Calibri">Any
ideas what I can do to get digikam back? <br>
</font></p>
<font face="Calibri">Marty</font>
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