[digiKam-users] wastebin problem

[Andreas T. Ege]

Hello,

panic over. It was just a temporal problem. After not shutting down 
digikam all files were restored yesterday evening when I came back from 
work. :-)
Don't quite understand why restoring files from the wastebin takes so 
much longer than moving them into it, but hey ho, just glad they are 
back. Might have been faster restoring them from backup, though.
The other thing I don't quite understand is, what's been happening in 
the background. When I started the restoration process, digikam was 
pretty much hogging 1 core to 90-100%. That dropped to normal background 
use hours before the pictures showed up in digikam again, and according 
to htop digikam was showing no activity higher than background. Why does 
it take that long if it hardly uses any resources?

The situation that started it remains, though.
I got one folder "pentax" with a lot of subfolders including "01neu" and 
"internet". There's that weird double entry of "pentax" with only the 2 
subfolders "01neu" and "internet". Files in those subfolders are all 
"hidden". I haven't created that doublicat and really would like to get 
rid of it. But deleting it moved the whole original "pentax" folder to 
the wastebin.
Anybody an idea how I can get rid of this partial doublicat?

Digikam also offers me the option of "repairing" the hidden files. What 
actually does that do? In my understanding, something that's hidden 
doesn't need repairing but finding/ unhiding. Considering the effect of 
deleting this folder, I'm a bit worried about trying anything on it at 
that point.
Certainly not before have done another backup.
-- 
Sincerely,

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