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

[Ramnarayan.K Digikam]

Hi

On Thu 26 Nov, 2020, 23:03 Maik Qualmann, <metzpinguin at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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/ <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.
>

So yes the images were root access after recovery and so i ran chmod with
the appropriate changes to enable them to be normally read



>
> 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
>
>
>
>
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