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

[Peter Rodgers]

Thanks Amd

I think maybe the partition was not mounted - when I tried digikam
today the system was freshly booted and I had not viewed the drive in
Konqueror. (drive is in fact sda7 not sda1)

I have just done so, digikam comes up as I would expect....

Phew!

I'll have to figure out how to permanently mount my photo drives (on
linux  now about 8 months, perhaps should have learned that a bit
sooner)

Many thanks for such a speedy reply!

Best regards

Peter Rodgers

www.fotoworks.eu

2008/4/10 Arnd Baecker <arnd.baecker at web.de>:
> 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
>
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