Delete Database file?

[Mick Sulley]

I seem to have some corruption of my database (sqlite), some pictures do 
not display in Digikam.

I just renamed my database and restarted Digikam (4.14) and it recreated 
the database, but the old file was 72.7 MB and the new one is 14.4 MB.  
The missing pictures do now display.

I have checked through some of the tables and there are big differences 
in numbers, e.g. ImageMetadata 46,949 records in the old table, 21,310 
in the new table.

I feel that to be safe and not loose data I need to restore the old 
database.  Any comments, advise?  I have loads of tags and I really 
don't want to loose them and see no easy way to confirm that they are 
all there.

Thanks

Mick