[digiKam-users] Refresh not working

[Stuart T Rogers]

I did another clean up of everything but still see the error

digikam.database: Folder does not exist or is not readable: 
"/home/stuart/Work/Graphics11"

as soon as I try to add an album to Graphics1.

Stuart

On 21/02/2019 12:07, Stuart T Rogers wrote:
> I tried cleaning up just the one album which contained the issue but it 
> has not resolved the issue. I now see a slightly different message
> 
> digikam.database: Folder does not exist or is not readable: 
> "/home/stuart/Work/Graphics11"
> 
> so it looks like it thinking there may be an album called Graphics11 but 
> none exists and browsing the sqlite database I can find no reference to 
> Graphics11.
> 
> Maybe I need to clean up everything?
> 
> Stuart
> 
> On 21/02/2019 11:08, Gilles Caulier wrote:
>> Try to use the Maintenance tool dedicated to cleanup the database 
>> (Look in Tools/Maintenance dialog).
>>
>> Gilles Caulier
>>
>> Le jeu. 21 févr. 2019 à 12:03, Stuart T Rogers 
>> <stuart at stella-maris.org.uk <mailto:stuart at stella-maris.org.uk>> a 
>> écrit :
>>
>>     Gilles
>>
>>     More on my problem with 5.9 with refresh not finding new items in a
>>     folder when either saving from GIMP or Darktable or indeed copying
>>     images from an SD card using a file manager (dolphin in my case).
>>
>>     I started digikam from a console and got these messages when doing a
>>     refresh:-
>>
>>     digikam.general: Using  4  CPU core to run threads
>>     digikam.database: No itemShortInfo could be retrieved from the 
>> database
>>     for image "IMGP0001.JPG"
>>     digikam.database: No itemShortInfo could be retrieved from the 
>> database
>>     for image "IMGP0002.JPG"
>>     digikam.database: No itemShortInfo could be retrieved from the 
>> database
>>     for image "IMGP0005.DNG"
>>     digikam.general: Event is dispatched through a passive pop-up
>>     QLayout: Attempting to add QLayout "" to QWidget "", which already
>>     has a
>>     layout
>>     digikam.general: scan mode: ScheduleCollectionScan ::
>>     ("/home/stuart/Work/Graphics1/Pentax-K-70/2019/02/")
>>     digikam.general: Cancel Main Thread
>>     digikam.general: Cancel Main Thread
>>     digikam.database: Folder does not exist or is not readable:
>>     "/home/stuart/Work/Graphics11/Pentax-K-70/2019/02"
>>     digikam.general: Event is dispatched through a passive pop-up
>>     QLayout: Attempting to add QLayout "" to QWidget "", which already
>>     has a
>>     layout
>>     digikam.geoiface: ----
>>     digikam.general: Using  4  CPU core to run threads
>>     digikam.general: Action Thread run  1  new jobs
>>     digikam.general: Cancel Main Thread
>>     digikam.general: One job is done
>>     digikam.general: Cancel Main Thread
>>
>>     Please note that digikam has read the folder shown and displayed the
>>     existing photos which were in it to start with. Restarting digikam 
>> does
>>     indeed show the new photos OK when it does the initial find of new
>>     items
>>     at start up.
>>
>>     For some reason or other I keep seeing the following message
>>
>>     digikam.database: Folder does not exist or is not readable:
>>     "/home/stuart/Work/Graphics11/Pentax-K-70/2019/02"
>>
>>     the path displayed is wrong in that it should read /Graphics1/ and 
>> not
>>     as shown /Graphics11/
>>
>>     I am guessing that there is an error in the database somewhere but I
>>     have no idea where it might be or how it might have come about. I 
>> also
>>     guess that this might be the cause of the failure to find new items.
>>
>>     How do I fix it easily as the database has several 1000's of 
>> photos in
>>     it and a total rebuild with take ages?
>>
>>     Stuart
>>
>>     On 17/02/2019 09:55, Stuart T Rogers wrote:
>>      > I am finding that when I open an image from within digikam to
>>     edit in
>>      > say darktable and save it to a folder within an album I am 
>> unable to
>>      > view any of the saved images within digikam even when I use
>>     refresh. I
>>      > have to close digikam and open it again for images to be found. 
>> I am
>>      > using digikam 5.9 in openSUSE Tumbleweed.
>>      >
>>      > Stuart
>>
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> 

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