[Digikam-users] Puzzling, and troubling, issue with empty folders

[Andrew Goodbody]

On 17/08/12 06:04, Guy Stalnaker wrote:
> So, that's the report. What can I do? Is there any record kept by
> Digikam of its activities I can check? Has anyone else experienced
> sudden unusual mysterious vanishments? I'm worried.
>
> Thanks for any help anyone can give.
>

Just a few observations.

You suffered a catastrophic drive failure yet it sounds like you are not 
keeping backups of your data. The next time you have a drive failure, 
and it will happen, you may not be able to recover anything. You need to 
start backing up your data. You should have one copy off line in a 
separate location. The maxim is that if you don't have your data backed 
up in two different ways then you don't have your data.

If you had a backup, then the simple thing to do is to compare the files 
you have live on line with the backup.

There are too many unknowns to be able to say why those directories are 
empty. My guess would be as a result of the de-duplication you did.

No, digikam does not randomly delete files. Other people would have 
noticed, especially those who keep backups.

Andrew