[Digikam-users] Error while opening the database. digiKam will try to automatically reconnect to the database.

[Tommy Carstensen]

Thanks Anders. I got it to work. I had to place the new database on my
laptop instead of my external HDD. I must have moved it to my external
HDD in 2012, when I last used digiKam. Next problem is getting the
face recognition to work...

On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Anders Lund <anders at alweb.dk> wrote:
> Hi Tommy,
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> On Lørdag den 25. januar 2014 21:22:57, Tommy Carstensen wrote:
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>> When I start digiKam I get the error message:
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>> Error while opening the database.
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>> digiKam will try to automatically reconnect to the database.
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>> I can click "Cancel" and it will start, but I can't import photos from
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>> my external HDD. I deleted digikam4.db by mistake. How do I get
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>> digiKam to work again? Thanks.
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> If you lost the database, you need to regenerate it. One way would be to go
> into the settings dialog, and under "Collections" ("Samlinger" på dansk)
> remove and then add your collection.
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>> Tommy
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> Anders
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