migrating from 4 to 5 and no database usable

[Luca Ferrari]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> Luca Ferrari <fluca1978 at infinito.it> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> due to the explosion of my old computer I update digikam from the last
>> 4 branch to the new 5.3 one as of kubuntu 16.10.
>> I've got all my stuff in digikam4.db (fully backupped for God sake!),
>> but when I start digikam 5.3 it is unable to find/migrate the
>> database.
>
> This surely points to having Digikam make it easy (default even) to
> store *all* metadata with the images.  There is then no need to
> migrate the database.

That's not a solution.
Anyway, I tried again and now digikam can accept my old database and
everything seems to be fine. Not sure what happened before.
Sorry, maybe a permission problem?

Luca