[Digikam-users] Digikam-users Digest, Vol 33, Issue 40

[Duffields]

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> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:38:53 -0800
> From: Duffields <dhltd at telus.net>
> Subject: [Digikam-users] Crash recovery
> To: digikam-users at kde.org
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> I just completed an evaluation of Photo Management applications for Ubuntu (Ver 
> 7.10) and had settled on DigiKam as the best. BUT today I hooked up an NAS to 
> see how DigiKam would perform and when I was editing some photos, DigiKam 
> stalled when deleting a photo.
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> The NAS was churning madly for a long time so I re-booted the Ubuntu Box and 
> when I tried to re-start DigiKam, a message displayed "Failed to update old 
> Database to new Database format" and DigiKam would not load.
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> I tried un-installing DigiKam and deleting all related data files that I could 
> find, then re-installing DigiKam but I still get the same error message when 
> trying to run it.
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> Can someone tell me how I can re-start DigiKam and if this is a known problem is 
> there a work-around?
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> Thanks
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> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:42:07 +0100
> From: "Gilles Caulier" <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] Crash recovery
> To: "digiKam - Digital Photo Management for the masses"
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> Hi,
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> What do you mean by "NAS" exactly ? A network file system ?
> 

Sorry, I hate it myself when people use acronyms and contractions when 
communicating with others who may not know the jargon.

NAS - "Network Accessible Storage".  I have a D-Link DNS-323 Network drive that 
is configured with two hard drives with mirror imaging.  All my computers are 
connected to it and all the shared files are kept on it rather than on the 
individual computers.  It works well on a network composed of both Windows and 
Linux computers.

I was testing Digikam on local files on an Ubuntu Box and when I decided on 
which photo management application to keep (Digikam) I pointed Digikam to the 
NAS device by changing the Digikam setup.

It seemed to work perfectly until I started moving and deleting photo files. 
After deleting a couple of files, Digikam froze and the drive indicator lights 
on the NAS began blinking furiously, and access from other computers slowed to a 
crawl.  That went on for for about five minutes until I lost my nerve.  I could 
not kill Digikam so I re-booted the Ubuntu computer.

When I restarted it and tried to re-start Digikam, I got the error message 
described above.  I re-tried with no success so then I tried to un-install 
Digikam, deleted all residual files that I could find that contained digikam, 
and re-installed Digikam.

Despite doing all that, when I try to re-start Digikam, I still get the same error.

I would like to keep Digikam and find a work-around if possible, but I need to 
know where Digikam keeps the database that the message referred to and how I can 
re-build it without being able to start Digikam.

Is there a "safe mode" to start Digikam?

Any advice or information you can provide would be much appreciated.  I am quite 
new to Linux, having only played with it for a few months, but it looks like it 
is a viable replacement for Windows although perhaps we will still need one or 
two virtual Windows machines for a few Windows dependent applications.

Thanks

Mac