[Digikam-users] First run and re-scan

[Mark Hayes (Hotmail)]

On 26/01/12 04:47, Andrew Goodbody wrote:
> On 25/01/12 01:29, Mark Hayes (Hotmail) wrote:
>> Every now and again, when I launch the software, Digikam starts all over
>> from scratch, re-scans my photos, and seems to set up a new database.
>> It's just done it again this week and it's really starting to upset me.
>> Each time this happens, I lose my tag structure and all data that was
>> only in the database...
>>
>> Why does this happen, and how can I recover any lost info, if at all?
>>
>> I'm using Kubuntu 11.10 with the standard repository install.
>
> It would help to actually know what that version of digikam is.
>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Many thanks.
>>
>> Mark.
>
> I have had this happen to me a couple of times but only when I was
> updating digikam. It was very annoying but not the end of the world as
> I had the metadata written to the image files. I am more careful about
> backing up my databases now as that is the best defence against this
> sort of problem. Once it has happened it is probably too late to
> recover without backups, sorry.
>
> Andrew
>
Apologies - KDE is 4.7
Digikam is v 2.1.1

Unfortunately, since I was only really in 'playing and testing out
Digikam mode' all of my metadata was not written to the files - and so I
lost a complete tag structure etc etc.

Ho hum....