[Digikam-users] how to import old Database in new Digikam?

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A had exactly the same problem(s) earlier. Using suse 10.3 with a mix of kde3 and kde4 installed. Tried with Sidux with the same problems.

With the help of another thread in this list I opened the sqllite-database and browsed the information stored. It may be reassuring to see the information (both picture tags/date/descriptions AND album tags/date/descriptions) are still there in the database. I was concerned they were entierly lost.

After several tries It suddendly worked getting the albums meta data into digikam! Not sure why.

Digikam crash when syncronizing pictures and database data may be (it was for me) problem with permissione. Set the permission on the root level and for all sub-directories and files.

Sven

--- Den lör 2009-08-22 skrev Peter Aschenberger <peter.aschenberger at gmx.at>:

> Från: Peter Aschenberger <peter.aschenberger at gmx.at>
> Ämne: Re: [Digikam-users] how to import old Database in new Digikam?
> Till: "digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source" <digikam-users at kde.org>
> Datum: lördag 22 augusti 2009 12.08
> Am Samstag 22 August 2009 03:40:27
> schrieb Tim Jenness:
> > Configure digikam to write the tags to the files from
> the database
> > ("Synchronize images with database") in the main menu.
> This will write tags
> > to Jpegs but won't work for movies or raw files.
> 
> I tried that but every times I try to synchronize the image
> with the database 
> Digikam 0.9.4 crashes immediatly. The information at the
> console are not very 
> informative:
> beda at Desk-01:~$ digikam
> Found dcraw version: 8.83
> KCrash: Application 'digikam' crashing...
> beda at Desk-01:~$
> 
> Are there any possibilities to convert the Database by
> hand?
> 
> 
> Best regards
> Peter
> 
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