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<p>Hi,</p>
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<p>I had to reinstall my mac and recover from backup.</p>
<p>So on a fresh MacOS install, I did this:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1: Restore Pictures folder from backup - for my
local photo collection, and this is also where all the digikam
*.db files are located.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2: Restore these files from backup:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<p class="CodeblockCxSpFirst"><span lang="DA"
style="color:black;mso-color-alt:
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<p class="CodeblockCxSpMiddle"><span lang="DA"
style="color:black;mso-color-alt:
windowtext">~/Library/Preferences/digikamrc</span><span lang="DA"></span></p>
<p class="CodeblockCxSpMiddle"><span lang="DA"
style="color:black;mso-color-alt:
windowtext">~/Library/Preferences/digikam_systemrc</span><span lang="DA"></span></p>
<p class="CodeblockCxSpLast"><span lang="DA"
style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">~/Library/Preferences/org.digiKam.plist</span><span
lang="DA"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3: Install digikam.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">4: Start digikam.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Collection IDs have changed. So I set it to:
"collection is still available but ID changed"</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then DK started to "Scan for new items". That
is expected. It always does this when starting up. But this time
it takes hours and hours. It is still going for several hours and
progress is like this: <img
src="cid:part1.GPu5bOEq.ha6dppSX@gmail.com" alt=""></p>
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<p>I would expect DK to not have to reindex everything because it
should use the existing *.db files that are present because they
were restored from backup. And the digikamrc should tell DK to use
them ,right?</p>
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<p>Did I miss something in my recovery procedure?</p>
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<p>BR</p>
<p>Thomas</p>
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