[digiKam-users] Drive crash. How to recover?

[Maik Qualmann]

You can update the UUID and path with current digiKam versions without 
problems. Go to the digiKam collection settings and click on the refresh icon 
and select the new path / drive. It is important that your underlying folder 
structure is still the same, otherwise the database will be rebuilt. 

A backup of the DB is always good in case you do something wrong ... 

Maik

Am Montag, 9. August 2021, 17:17:32 CEST schrieb digikam at 911networks.com:
> DK 7.3 on Manjaro
> 
> My 3.5" external drive (USB toaster) with all my images and DK
> databases has crashed. I think that that drive is toast. partition
> table is gone and smartctl cannot read anything on it.
> 
> I have a backup on an other 3.5" external drive (USB toaster)
> 
> The UUID are different. How do I reset the path & UUID for DK to read
> the existing db?
> 
> or Do I start a new db and reimport everything? I have the xmps.
> 
> Thanks