[Digikam-users] Digikam eats (some of) my photos when I tag them

[Gilles Caulier]

When you tags photo, digiKam do not touch file. Tags go to the database.
You can setup DK to delegate tags writting to image through Exiv2 shared
libs. Certainly this library has a problem with NTFS.

Gilles Caulier

2016-06-17 13:42 GMT+02:00 Luca Ferrari <fluca1978 at infinito.it>:

> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Peter S <slow.dust at gmail.com> wrote:
> > When I tag photos from my camera only, then  close digikam, they are
> > deleted.  Only tagged photos, and only in the directory relating to my
> > camera - but all of those photos.  The thumbs db still has a thumbnail of
> > them, the tag database still knows they are tagged but the original file
> is
> > gone.  Digikam can't open them and neither windows or linux can see the
> > files anymore.
> >
> > Anyone seen anything like this before?
>
> Something very similar happened here.
> Long story short: I kept my photos on an external hard drive vfat, and
> suddenly all the files on disk of 2016 photos (tagged) were missing. I
> had the thumbnails too, until I rebuilt the database.
> Luckily I had regular backups and I was able to restore data, but I
> changed the file system from vfat to ext4. So far I did not
> experienced the problem again, but I'm not sure it was a filesystem
> problem.
>
> % digikam --version
> Qt: 4.8.6
> KDE Development Platform: 4.14.15
> digiKam: 4.12.0
>
> My collection was around 290 GB.
>
> Luca
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