[Digikam-users] Confused about "created" date/time on some photos

[Marcel Wiesweg]

> Hi again,
>
> Just a report on what I've managed to achieve since posting:
>
> Michael Liddle wrote:
> > Is there anyway that I can fix these dates up?
>
> Deleting the entries for the offending files from the Images table
> forced them to be re-read, correctly. So FWIW my problem is effectively
> fixed. Still might be something to look into however...

It's a deliberate decision not to do a full rescan on modification. A full 
rescan need to be triggered manually. (This may be slightly broken currently)
You found the "hard" way to force a complete rescan.

>
> > Is it safe to just delete the the rows with album = ""?
>
> Seemed to be, I tried it on a copy of my database and have had no
> troubles (though I've not investigated much).

They are already in the status "removed". You are free to delete them 
completely.