All albums are removed if there is a network disconnection

[Remco Viëtor]

On mardi 30 janvier 2018 12:42:13 CET woenx wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am using Digikam 5.8.0 in Windows 10. After (painfully) scanning around
> 100,000 pictures in a network share via wifi, I suffered a momentarily
> disconnection (less than a minute), and Digikam, which was open at that
> moment, deleted all albums from my collections. Now it is scanning again
> from the beginning, which will take a few days.
> 
> I browsed the SQLite database file to confirm that albums were indeed empty
> (although filenames appeared in the Image database).
> 
> Shouldn't be there some protection when a collection in a network share is
> temporally unavailable, so it doesn't automatically remove everything from
> the database? Like marking the album as "unavailable" or greyed out, but
> still allowing to see the thumbnails. Of course, if a specific folder no
> longer exists (but the network share is accessible) it makes sense to remove
> it from the collection, but if the entire collection is not available it is
> likely due to a network error, and shouldn't be emptied right away in my
> opinion.

You did declare your collections as residing on network shares, didn't you?
The first option is only for collections on your local hard disk(s); which 
should not go off-line.

Remco