migrating from 4 to 5 and no database usable

[Chris Green]

Luca Ferrari <fluca1978 at infinito.it> wrote:
> 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.

Well it should be. ... or are you saying that you don't have all the
metadata in your images?

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Chris Green
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