[Digikam-users] Failed to update old Database to new Database format

[Arnd Baecker]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Peter Rodgers wrote:

> Any help welcome
>
> I'm using digikam 0.9.3 in PCLinuxos digital photography
>
> I use digikam for reviewing my photos.  Yesterday I created a folder
> of new pictures as usual, started up digikam, it read all the folders
> on the drive (sda1 a  200gb partitiion), I reviewed the pictures,
> closed digikam and shut down.  All as usual, nothing untoward.
>
> This morning when I started up digikam I simply get the message
> 'Failed to update old Database to new Database format' and then
> nothing else.

Hmm, does not sound that good...
Do you have a backup of your images and a backup of the
database file digikam3.db ?

> It is a great application and I do not want to do without it - I'd
> really like to know what has gone wrong and how I can fix it.
>
> daft question - Is there a limit to the number of folders it can
> parse? 40 folders currently, hoping for more

I use more. So this can't be the problem ...

This reminds me of this bug:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144253

Could you post the output of
  ls -lh ~/Pictures/digikam3.db
(or whereover your digikam3.db file is)?

It could also mean that the directory
with the Album Path is write-protected or does not exist.
(Maybe it got mount read-only for some obscure reasons?)

Arnd