[Digikam-users] Conversion from digikam3.db to digikam4.db

[Michel Pottier]

Frederic Gedin a écrit :
> Hi
>
> Is there any tool to convert digikam3.db to digikam4.db ?
> When I launch digikam on my previous album, I get an error dialog box 
> suggesting me to erase my digikam3.db file. Not a very good idea as I am 
> quite reluctant to re-tag several thousands of images.
>
> the exact message  is :
>
> The schema updating process from version 4 to 5 failed, caused by an 
> internal error. Please delete the database files ("digikam3.db" and 
> "digikam4.db" in "/home/photo_video/frederic/photos") if you want to try 
> to run digiKam with an empty database - it might work then.
>   
Hello,
 i recently installed mandriva 2009 which comes with kde4 and digikam 
10.xx beta.
Before running this beta version i had made a backup of digikam3.db and 
the first time i ran version 10 it creates a digikam4.db file:

-rw-r--r--  1 michel michel  3107840 2008-10-14 09:57 
digikam3.db.apresInstall2009
-rw-r--r--  1 michel michel 12561408 2008-10-15 13:48 digikam4.db

As digikam 10 is not an operational version i decided to install version 
0.9.5: This version has read the initial digikam3db without problem 
(this means that this database file had not been corrupted by digikam 
10). So I think that the correct tools to convert from digikam3.db to 
digikam4.db (or to create a digikam4.db) is digikam 10.0. Do you have a 
backup of 3.db to retry the conversion with digikam 10.
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