Fwd: Information lost

[Anders Lund]

søndag den 23. april 2017 23.49.28 CEST skrev daniel bip:
> Andrey,
> 
> Thanks for your reply. Have you ever moved an entire folder into another
> one? (the folder itself, not the images of that folfer:
> \\repository\folder1\ -> \\repository\folder2\folder1\). When I do so it's
> when I loose all the information...

Hi Andrey,

I move folders from a collection on my laptop to one on my external disk 
regularly, without loosing metadata (which is stored in the dk database, as 
the files are mostly CR2s).

Kindly,
Anders

> Thanks.
> 
> BR,
> 
> 
> d.
> 
> On 23 April 2017 at 23:23, Andrey Goreev <aegoreev at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I always move pictures around. I have also regenerated the .db file for my
> > collection on a freshly system few times. Never lost a thing.
> > So I don't think it is normal to lose your info when moving photos.
> > As for the second question (recovering from SQL), there was someone here
> > who wrote a python script that recovers some certain information from sql
> > database and writes it to image files. I would try searching by "sql"
> > "python" "script" keywords here:
> > http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/
> > 
> > Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
> > 
> > -------- Original message --------
> > From: daniel bip <daniel.mail.public at gmail.com>
> > Date: 2017-04-23 1:17 PM (GMT-07:00)
> > To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
> > power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org>
> > Subject: Fwd: Information lost
> > 
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > One week ago I sent the mail below, getting no answer. It probably didn't
> > get to the list...
> > 
> > May someone help? Is it normal to loose all the information when moving
> > one directory into another one? Any way to recover the information from
> > SQL? I saw it contains a field called Status which seems to keep track of
> > changes, if I'm not wrong...
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > BR,
> > 
> > 
> > d.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: daniel bip <daniel.mail.public at gmail.com>
> > Date: 17 April 2017 at 17:49
> > Subject: Information lost
> > To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
> > power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org>
> > 
> > 
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > Situation: I had several folders in a given album. I tagged everyone,
> > rated all my pictures, located them, bla bla bla. Then I decided I wanted
> > all those folders to be inside another one, and moved them all (movement
> > done from DK, of course) into that folder.
> > 
> > Result: all the information is lost. No tags, no starts, no nothing at
> > all. Tried to Quit and Start DK again. Nothing. Tried to move those
> > folders
> > back to the original location. Nothing. Tried to replicate the problem by
> > rating another picture in that folder and moving the whole folder to a new
> > location. The information is lost again...
> > 
> > So.. it seems DK can't handle folders been moved from root album into
> > another folder, right?
> > 
> > Is there any way I could try to recover all that information? I guess it
> > is still in SQLite..
> > 
> > System: Ubuntu 16.4 Digikam 5.5 from Philip Johnson's PPA running as a
> > Oracle VM, SQLite as out of the box, pictures stored in Windows folders
> > mounted in Ubuntu.
> > 
> > BR...
> > 
> > 
> > d.