Fwd: Information lost

[Andrey Goreev]

I move mine pics the same way. No issues.Daniel, do you have write access the folder where .db files are ?

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-------- Original message --------From: Anders Lund <anders at alweb.dk> Date: 2017-04-24  7:26 AM  (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 
mandag den 24. april 2017 15.25.03 CEST skrev Andrey Goreev:
> I am assuming that both /Photos and /Bigdisk are being digiKam collections,
> correct ?

Yes, both are collections. I do this in the digikam album list.

Kindly,
Anders


> 
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
> -------- Original message --------From: Anders Lund <anders at alweb.dk> Date:
> 2017-04-24  7:20 AM  (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
> 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.


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