[Digikam-users] RAW files disappearing!

[Marie-Noëlle Augendre]

Oups!!!
I'm very sorry about my previous message: the missing files are on my
desktop...  hidden under too many opened windows.
Apparently, some wrong manipulation with the mouse resulted in an
involuntary drag&drop unto the desktop of my secondary screen, and I didn't
realize it on the spur on the moment.

Anyway, even when they stay inside Digikam, i've sometimes problems with
drag&drops that move/copy pictures to the wrong album, or tag, or whatever.
And more than once, I had to use the search function to find pictures that
have been misplaced I didn't know where...

I would really appreciate the possibility to 'undo' the few last actions,
whatever they have been, as it is usually the case in many other programs.
Could you consider implementing such a functionality in Digikam in some
near future?

Marie-Noëlle

2012/11/21 Marie-Noëlle Augendre <mnaugendre at gmail.com>

> I'm worrying hard!
>
> More and more often, I see RAW files vanishing completely when working
> with Digikam (only managing collections, as I don't do any editing in
> Digikam).
> Twice in a couple of days, I 'lost' a RAW picture but, as it has been
> taken a few days before, I've able to reimport it from the memory card.
>
> This time, I was working on some pictures taken last year. I selected 3
> different RAW, then Ctrl-L to put them in the lighttable in order to
> compare them. There seemed to be a problem with the thumbnails, in fact I
> could see only one of them so couldn't move the pictures into the
> lighttable, tried to change the dimensions of the thumbnails bar, but it
> didn't work. Tried again. No better. So I went back to Digikam main window
> and saw that one of the three RAW was missing; and I could not find it
> anywhere, even using Nautilus, or 'locate' in command mode.
> It is as if the file has been suppressed, without me having to confirm the
> actual suppression!
> I might have hit a wrong key, but this shouldn't make pictures disappear
> from the hard disk!! They even are not in the trash bin...
>
> For this one time, as I know which picture is missing, I will be able to
> recover it from the last backup; but it is not the first time I have doubt
> about disappearing pictures and I begin to worry very much.
>
> Currently, I've launched a maintenance thumbnail reconstruction (still 75%
> to go); but as I couldn't find the last missing picture anywhere on the
> disk, I guess Digikam won't find it either.
>
> Has anybody encounter such problem?
> I'm not sure I can rely on Digikam any more, if I don't know what keys
> combination can make me loose pictures and when...
>
> Marie-Noëlle
>
>

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