[digiKam-users] Cannot browse by tags on images recovered from an accidentally formated hard disk - exif data is present on recoevered images

[Maik Qualmann]

Hmm, date display works and tags don't. At the moment I have no idea. Activate 
debug and the output in the terminal could help (https://www.digikam.org/
contribute/). The photorec and testdisk programs write their files with root 
access. This may be the problem, but that would also affect the date view.

Maik

Am Donnerstag, 26. November 2020, 10:54:49 CET schrieb Ramnarayan.K Digikam:
> Hi
> 
> Some, many, months ago I accidentally formatted my image hard disk.  More
> than a TB's worth.
> 
> It took many days of running testdisk / photorec to recover the images.
> 
> The recovered images all lost their original names and are now in multiple
> (100's) of folders named by testdisk / photorec
> 
> Since then I have pointed digikam to the recovered images (On a new Hard
> disk) and am also placing my new images in the same section.
> 
> Digikam has picked up the tags that were / are in the recovered images, it
> has also organized them by date (from exif data).
> 
> *However while I can browse by date I cannot browse by Tags. *
> 
> I have used the "read tags " from images - and this also took a tonne load
> of time but it generated all the tags (seemingly) but it shows no images in
> any tag category.
> 
> Kindly advice.
> 
> My images are on external USB portable drive. And I open digikam only after
> attaching the drive
> 
> Current OS and Digikam Specs are
> Linux Mint 20 (Ulyana)
> Digikam Version 6.4.0
> 
> Look forward to you advice
> 
> thanks
> Ram