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I am the network administrator, so I do have all rights to the network collection. The hard drive and file system all check out.
Other ideas welcome.
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If you cannot delete the digiKam4.db with Explorer after restarting, you may
not have rights to this network collection. But if the progress bar in
Explorer stops, I suspect a file system/hard drive error on your NAS.
Maik
Am Freitag, 29. November 2024, 17:44:41 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit schrieb
Marty Ducote:
><i> After using it for months, I can't open digikam at all. After fighting
</i>><i> with it for several hours, I've narrowed it down to a corrupted db file,
</i>><i> possibly two.. I've tried to delete the files and let digikam recreate
</i>><i> them, but they will not be deleted.
</i>><i>
</i>><i> Here's where I am:
</i>><i>
</i>><i> * Windows 11 on an administrator account
</i>><i> * digikam 8.4.0
</i>><i> * Photo files are stored in multiple folders and sub folders within a
</i>><i> parent folder (named All Photos) on an external networked hard
</i>><i> drive. The database files (digikam4.db and digikam4.db-journal) are
</i>><i> in the parent folder. All Photos was created by me. It's not a
</i>><i> Pictures folder that Windows created.
</i>><i> * File explorer shows that the digikam4.db file is about 10 MB and the
</i>><i> journal file is 0 KB
</i>><i>
</i>><i> What I've Tried:
</i>><i>
</i>><i> * File explorer, right clicking and choosing Delete. The "running
</i>><i> actions" window will run indefinitely showing 0% progress.
</i>><i> * Same step, using run as administrator. Same result.
</i>><i> * Uninstalling and reinstalling digikam multiple times, including
</i>><i> numerous reboots. When I tried to uninstall a couple of times, it
</i>><i> told me it could not uninstall because digikam was already running,
</i>><i> even though I had just rebooted the computer and had not started the
</i>><i> program.
</i>><i> * I booted into Safe Mode with Networking but my external drive was
</i>><i> not available.
</i>><i> * Trying to delete it using the command prompt window
</i>><i> * Installing the program on a different computer with identical access
</i>><i> to the external hard drive, but since the corrupted file is in the
</i>><i> primary photo folder, digikam wouldn't start on that computer, either.
</i>><i>
</i>><i> My first computer was a DOS machine, so I'm pretty comfortable in
</i>><i> Command Prompt. I am less familiar with Windows Terminal, so may need
</i>><i> more specific help if that's part of the path.
</i>><i>
</i>><i> The program did exactly what I needed it to do, albeit a little slowly.
</i>><i> Any ideas what I can do to get digikam back?
</i>><i>
</i>><i> Marty
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