[Digikam-users] database troubles

[Volker Henn]

Hi Samuel,
obviously it makes more fun programming face-recognition or other useless 
things, instead of making the database stable. I also often lost tags etc.

Now I use the mysql-database. It is also a good idea that path names keep the 
same after replacing a hard disk.
Volker



Am Dienstag, 29. Januar 2013, 15:54:00 schrieb 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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