[Digikam-users] Move function wiped source card..and didn't move

[Jim MacLeod]

On Thursday 19 Jan 2012 10:12:44 Paul Verizzo wrote:
> One of my own rules for a decade has been, don't delete camera files until
> they are copied onto the hard drive and those are backed up, locally or
> remote.
> 
Then why move the files, which deletes the originals. As you said, copy them to 
the new destination, check everything is correct and, ONLY THEN, delete the 
original.
if the card is empty then they have been moved - and possibly Dolphin knows 
where.

> Well........... yesterday I decided to move a dozen low quality shots for
> eBay using DK's Move.  Instead of typical quick move, a box popped up, a
> slider went slowly back and forth, and then a Dolphin box popped up with
> the files displayed in it.  Well, I didn't need anything Dolphin (I do know
> what it is), so I closed it. 
> 
> Nothing got moved.  And I ran my excellent data recovery program twice on
> the card and there is NOTHING found.  I have NEVER had that happen. 
> 
> Now, I'm not so much complaining about having to reshoot those images -
> thank the goddess they weren't irreplaceable - but for the next victim,
> that might be the case. 
> 
> DK needs to just MOVE those files, no special procedures wanted.  Surely
> someone has already had a disaster.
> 
> Paul
Jim