Delete Database file?

[Maik Qualmann]

I think you should first check their hard drive. It is well possible that it 
has defective sectors. It would be a possible explanation for the broken 
digiKam DB.

Maik

On Donnerstag, 17. November 2016 21:20:30 CET Mick Sulley wrote:
> 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


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Gruß Maik