[Digikam-users] My Albums missing?

[hex]

Hi all

Well I did a rather drastic solution to this problem (I'm a linux newbie!) - 
which probably won't help anyone at all - but just in case there are others 
as impatient as me.......;-)

I found the digikam database (I used

find / -name digikam*.db* -type -f

at a command line (which if I'm right means look everywhere for a FILE 
the -type f bit, named digikam-anything.db-anything)

 which I discovered is a SQLite database and had a look using SQLiteman and it 
didn't seem to have all the albums there. (there must be something somewhere 
tricking it into thinking they are because digikam wouldn't let me create 
albums with the same name?) So not understanding SQLite databases I gave up! 
and simply renamed the digikam database (just in case!!!) and restarted 
digikam and digikam rebuilt all the albums (under it's album directory in the 
filesystem) with a new database.

So now I can see all my albums again!

I would obviously urge extreme caution using this approach! Having really just 
started in the world of digital photography and digikam I hadn't made any 
ratings, comments etc etc which I presume would all have been lost if I had 
any!!!

If anyone knows of any links or manuals for the digikam SQLite database (or a 
handy query repository?) I'd be grateful.

DIL23
:)


> Re: [Digikam-users] My Albums missing?
> From:
> hex <hex at blueyonder.co.uk>  (DIL23)
>   To:
> Mikolaj Machowski <mikmach at wp.pl>
>   Date:
> 2007-12-28 15:05
> (...apologies - I sent my first reply from the wrong email account and it
> came back rejected!)
>
> Hi
>
> Sorry should have been more clear!
> Yes - they're all in sub-folders of ~/Pictures/
>
> ie
> ~/Pictures/Holidays
> ~/Pictures/Family/kids
>
> etc etc
>
> and if I import all the JPEGs (which appear in the filetype list) from
> anywhere camera/folders/disk etc to a new album that digikam sets up eg
> ~/Pictures/NewAlbum it creates it on hard disk but it doesn't show anywhere
> in digikam!!??!!
>
>  Then if I try to create a new album from menu/taskbar and attempt to call
> it NewAlbum digikam complains that the "Album" already exists and do I want
> to replace it (I don't) but I would like to be able to see it!!!!
>
> Usually try to keep up to date with releases so will look out for 0.9.3
> Thanks for taking time out to reply.
> DIL23
>
> :)On Thursday 27 December 2007 21:54:38 you wrote:

> > Wonder if anyone can help?
> > I'm using v0.9.2-final. All files on camera are found and successfully
> > downloaded to a new album of my choosing and the all go into
> > ~/Pictures/*
> > The weird thing is that it can find my 'old' albums there and display
> > them in the My Albums sidebar list (by date, folder, whatever) the new
> > files are there too but it never shows them in digikam only on the
> > filesystem! If I try to import the folder it complains that it already
> > exists, the same if I try re-downloading from camera etc.
> >
> > I've been thru all the settings and can't see anything obvious, tried
> > rebuiding metadata, thumbnails etc but it doesn't seem to see the
> > folders on the filesystem.
> >
> > So any help would be great - thanks in advance.
> > DIL23
>
> If I understand correctly your root album is ~/Pictures and imported
> pictures are like ~/Pictures/*.jpg ? digiKam doesn't see them. They have
> to be in album one level "lower".
>
> If I didn't understand correctly what about file type, are they in list
> of acceptable file extensions?
>
> Third: try to upgrade to 0.9.3, released on 23th.
>
> m.