[Digikam-users] database troubles

[Samuel Ronayette]

mhh ok, I have progressed a bit by looking at the tables in the
database.... I think I have lost my database now. I have the feeling the
migration thing created and empty database.  Does it make sense? is it what
the migration tool is supposed to do? if yes, then I overwrote my database
with this empty one...
It's the second or third time I loose all my tags and everything in the
database with digikam... :-(( very annoying.
I find it very confusing. How do you do when you are not an expert in
database? How to make a backup of the database??? I think I used in the
past such a backup tool (because I have old backups on my disk), but I
can't find it anymore...

samuel

2013/1/29 Samuel Ronayette <sronayette at gmail.com>

> Hello
>
> I intend to reinstall my system and format my disk. When I will copy my
> files (and my photos) back on my new system, I want to be sure I will have
> my digikam stuff just like before (basically, tags and "stars" on photos)
> Do I just need a copy of the database?  (the file digikam4.db?)
>
> and actually, I am having trouble now, because I use the "database
> migration" tool, in order to make such a copy on another disk (I understood
> this tool as a copying tool, but I realise now that I must be wrong)? Now
> when I start digikam, it lost the location of my albums, and try to connect
> to the database, with no success....
> and now it asks me again where my photos are re rebuild everything! How
> can I tell it to use the database that I have saved?
>
> thanks if you can help
>
> Samuel
>
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