Delete Database file?

[Mick Sulley]

I have run self check on the disk and it seems fine.


On 17/11/16 21:26, Maik Qualmann wrote:
> 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
>