[Digikam-users] Can I get back my lost tags?

[Gys van Zyl]

Excellent!  Thanks for putting me on the right track.  Everything's back to
normal now.


On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Adam <photos at papettys.com> wrote:

> You have to edit the database and change the drive names. The drive names
> are some 20+ characters. I something similar happen to me.
>
> You will see the new name once you add one folder in the collection, then
> take that new name and apply it to the backup db (after you make another
> backup :) )
>
> Hope that makes some sense
>
>
> *From:* Gys van Zyl <gysvanzyl at gmail.com>
> *To:* digikam-users at kde.org
> *Sent:* Thu, May 13, 2010 9:47:33 AM
> *Subject:* [Digikam-users] Can I get back my lost tags?
>
> Almost all my photos are CR2 files, so I can't add tags to the metadata.
>  Recently I had to reformat the 1TB external drive on which I store all my
> photos (from FAT32 to ext4).  After formatting I recreated the folder
> structure identically to before, and I used the same mount point.  Starting
> up the first time, digikam gave the message of being unable to find a
> collection.  I re-added the collection in exactly the same place as before,
> but now all my tags are gone.
>
> Is there some way I can get the tags back?  I made a copy of the digikam
> database, so I have a backup from when everything was OK.  The full path
> name of all the photos are exactly the same as before.  I hope someone as a
> bright idea!
>
> Using digikam 1.2 on ubuntu 10.04.
>
>
> Gys
>
>
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