[digiKam-users] Extracting thumbnails

[Wesley Smith]

Ok. So that is a little beyond my knowledge base. Is there a way, having exported the blobs, to decompress them?
On May 12, 2020, 11:28 PM -0500, Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com>, wrote:
> The actual blob is first of all a QByteArray compressed with qCompress.
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> Maik
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> Am Mittwoch, 13. Mai 2020, 05:05:41 CEST schrieb Gilles Caulier:
> > Hi,
> >
> > blog are images in fact in wavelets compression format PGF :
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Graphics_File
> >
> > Best
> >
> >
> > Gilles Caulier
> >
> > Le mer. 13 mai 2020 à 04:56, Wesley Smith <wss7932 at gmail.com> a écrit :
> > > I have managed to lose an entire collection of images spanning years.
> > > I've tried every way to get them back but, they are gone. I can still
> > > see all of the thumbnails and so I know I can somehow extract them but, I
> > > don't know how. It's the only thing I have left of them. I know they're
> > > small but, that's better than gone. I have tried opening the database in
> > > sqlite browser and extracting, I've tried a python script that was
> > > hopeful but, the files exported are not images, just *.blob. What can I
> > > do?
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