Fwd: Information lost

[daniel bip]

Hi Anders,

Do you move folders the same way I move them (from level1 to level2) or
from level1 to level1?

I do:

From: repository\folder1\pictures.JPG
To: repository\folder2\folder1\pictures.JPG

Thanks for your feedback

BR,


d.



On 24 April 2017 at 06:26, Anders Lund <anders at alweb.dk> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
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