[Digikam-users] sqlite data

[Tom Albers]

Joel B. Mohler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to digiKam (just getting my digital camera today) and it looks like 
> just the thing to organize photos in a wife-friendly manner.  I have one 
> question though.  I'd like to archive the photo captions/tags etc in a human 
> readable format.  I'm under the impression that all of this information is 
> kept in the digikam.db in the root album folder in an sqlite format.  I 
> thought I could then have the sqlite CLI program dump the data for backup.  
> However that doesn't work on my computer with the following issues:
> 
> **************************
> $ sqlite3 digikam.db
> SQLite version 3.2.1
> Enter ".help" for instructions
> sqlite> .tables
> Error: file is encrypted or is not a database
> sqlite> .database
> Error: file is encrypted or is not a database
> sqlite>
> **************************
> 
> Am I understanding the file digikam.db correctly?  Is there another way to 
> export this information which is automatable for daily backup?

digikam.db is <sqlite3 = digikam < 0.8.0
digikam3.db = sqlite3 = digikam 0.8.0 (released soon)

Toma
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