Fwd: Information lost

[Anders Lund]

mandag den 24. april 2017 13.35.12 CEST skrev 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


My typical action is to drag

/Photos/2017/<folder> to /Bigdisk/2017/

This moves a folder (containing subfolders) to an external drive.

Kindly,
Anders


> 
> 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.