[digiKam-users] wastebin problem

[Andreas T. Ege]

Hi there,

I have a major problem with digikam's wastebin.
It started with suddenly having part of my main album duplicated, with 
all the files in it "hidden". No idea how that happened, but the 
duplicate was suddenly there. I double checked, seemed all to be in 
duplicate, so I moved the double to the wastebin. That did also move the 
whole (and not just the duplicated parts) of the original album to the 
wastebin.

So far, so bad. Went into the wastebin, selected all the bloody files 
and clicked restore.
Result: 2 subfolders of the album are (possibly) restored, the rest went 
to Nirvana, and some 18000+ files are still in the wastebin. Selecting 
those and hitting restore results in some intense cpu action, the 
wastebin going to 0 files, no change in the album and when leaving and 
then returning to the wastebin, the same files are still in it.
(Interestingly, deleting these files took hardly any time at all, while 
restoring them seems to take forever.)

Luckily, it seems the most important (i.e., not back-uped) folder is 
restored, though I'm hesitant hitting the "repair hidden items"  entry 
considering the rather unexpected way the wastebin responds.

Digikam 7.1.0 under Manjaro and XFCE.

Any suggestions how to proceed without messing things up even more?

-- 
Sincerely,

Andreas T. Ege
Dr. med. vet., MRCVS, MABVA
     mob: +44 (0)7970 190925