[Digikam-devel] [Bug 253062] New: Database of 80, 000+ images wiped out

[Claudio Piombetti]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253062

           Summary: Database of 80,000+ images wiped out
           Product: digikam
           Version: 1.2.0
          Platform: Unlisted Binaries
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: major
          Priority: NOR
         Component: Database
        AssignedTo: digikam-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: bugzilla at affari.to


Created an attachment (id=52179)
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Error message from Digikam regarding the schema updating process failure

Version:           1.2.0 (using KDE 4.4.5) 
OS:                Linux

After a crash, Digikam is left running as a zombie. Closing it and restarting
it, my database is gone. 80,000 pics.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1) apply a tag to 200-300 hundred pics (JPEGs and Nikon D300 RAW files);
2) wait. It will crash;
3) after the crash, close Digikam using Force Quit (unless the program died
with an error message);
4) look at the system monitor, if Digikam is listed there as a zombie, kill it;
5) restart Digikam;
6) you will see an error message.

Actual Results:  
Error message:

The schema updating process from version 4 to 5 failed, caused by an error that
we did not expect. You can try to discard your old database and start with an
empty one. (In this case, please move the database files "digikam3.db" and
"digikam4.db" from the directory "/home/claudio/Pictures"). More probably you
will want to report this error to (blah blah).

Click OK on the error window. Digikam starts, and instead of showing my album's
data structure, there is nothing, not one folder or image. All gone. 

Expected Results:  
Not to see my database wiped out for the umpteenth time in the last few weeks.
I do not know what I am doing wrong, if anything, but this is beginning to cost
me money and "face", since I have recommended Digikam on my websites.

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