[Digikam-users] Trapped in digiKam for KDE on windows beta5

[Peter Shute]

Marcel Wiesweg wrote on Monday, 11 January 2010 2:14 AM:

> Dont expect us to go through the 200 bugs fixed since then. Just
> update. 
> Updating from beta5 doesn't change your images nor your db.
> 
>> 
>> So now I'm stuck.  I don't want to experiment with upgrades till I've
>> saved  the tags, but I can't save them.

The reason I'm reluctant to upgrade before saving the metadata is that I somehow overwrote my database while attempting to upgrade soon after I started using digiKam.  Does an uninstall delete it?  I think I tried that at one stage.  It was only a minor annoyance at the time, no tags lost, just a lot of time rebuilding thumbnails.

I had a bit of a go at trying to compile it, but the instructions I found didn't seem to work - there were components the instructions said to install that I didn't find to be available for installing, I don't know why.

Saving the metadata an album at a time seems to work, so I'll do that and then have another go at compiling it.