Fwd: Information lost

[daniel bip]

Hi Andrey,

As you write the information in the file itself then it's not the same
situation, as I keep all that information in SQLite.

Thanks anyway.

BR,


d.



On 24 April 2017 at 01:04, Andrey Goreev <aegoreev at gmail.com> wrote:

> Daniel
>
> Yes I have.
> I normally have two collections:
>
> /home/user/pictures
> /home/user/pictures_unsorted
>
> I do culling, raw developing, some tagging in the unsorted collection and
> move its subfolders to the pictures collection when I am done.
>
> I do write metadata to JPEGs, raw images & video files though.
>
> After adding a tag I usually wait until the writing process is done and
> then check a random picture pressing ctrl + shift + M and looking at
> keywords.
>
> On linux Geeqie is also a good way to check if tags were written.
>
> On Windows you can just use file Explorer.
>
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: daniel bip <daniel.mail.public at gmail.com>
> Date: 2017-04-23 3:49 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: Re: Fwd: Information lost
>
> 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...
>
> 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.
>>
>>
>
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