[Digikam-users] digikam4.db

[Rei Shinozuka]

i love digikam.  it just works with jpgs, CR2, DNG, RWL, raw files
while the "mainstream" users are tikering with raw converters.

my only concern is that i keep seeming to lose all the meta-data,
like album thumbnails and notes.  i have just under 200GB of albums
on a NAS drive.  the db file is on a local raid partition (which is 
much easier with the newest version of digikam.)

just today, i fired up digikam with the NAS not mounted, and i think
that creamed the db file.  when i remounted the drive, and restarted
digikam, the albums were recreated, but the metadata was lost.

i think some sort of autosave or periodic backup of the db files
might make things more stable.  i've made backup copies of the db files, 
but when i try to replace the digikam4.db with the backup, i get
an error that the new file is not compatible.

maybe i'll try a wrapper script that backs up the db file when
digikam starts and exits.

thanks,

-rei


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Rei Shinozuka shino at panix.com
Ridgewood, New Jersey