[Digikam-users] Digikam freezing

[David King]

All was well with Digikam after creating the new database, and then 
suddenly it crashed completely (not frozen, just disappeared from the 
screen) -- I just clicked on a folder on the left and it all went.


David K




On 20/06/14 15:12, David King wrote:
> Further to previous comments, I decided to look for the Digikam database
> files, which I found in the Pictures folder which I had set as root for
> Digikam.
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> I renamed digikam4.db and digikam4.db-journal and then restarted
> Digikam. This time it took a while to get started, but once it did, it
> all seems to be working again (so far) without freezing, having created
> new database files.
>
> Hopefully it will stay okay, but I wonder what caused the database to be
> locked? Maybe from when it was open before and did not shut down cleanly?
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> David K
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