[digiKam-users] Setting lost after basic cleanup?

[KRODER Gerhard]

Hi,

so, as conlusion for first incident, i assume my "cleanup" deleted local 
conifg file accidentially.

But now again, i "lost" settings (path to file collection/ root album). 
What i basically did:

  * moved folder with all collections/fotos to a  new usb drive (from a
    usb drive with flaky internal connector board)
  * ordered drive letters to match same letter as befor, (with new drive
    having different patition scheme, and different drive names)

DigiKam did not find previos collection path (like f:/digiKam), and 
started without collection. When i looked  for config files then, there 
were brand new timestamps for configuration files under 
%userprofil%/appdata/local. Path to DB files (a local path) was still 
known and valid.

How can this occure?  As i  mentioned, old drive had bad connector, and 
dissaperared occasionally. I probably may have started digikam without 
having  any of old or new drive connected. Does this "reset" collections 
path?

At the end, there was no loss of tagging, faces and such. Yust some time 
to reload root album rsb. file collection. I've added path for removable 
drive again, and scan found everything then.

One thing else to mention: setup for  adding new removable drive did 
know old folder name (same as new one), but did not show a path, so i 
deletet this entry, after new entry did showup all expectet data. This 
behaviour is somewhat unclear to me.


Am 07.05.2021 um 00:18 schrieb KRODER Gerhard:

> Hi,
>
> having done a cleanup on c: drive (by system, on drive properties, 
> general tab, "cleanup"), Digikam /.2 does not findany previous image 
> collections, dato or settings, on restart. Just as if it was a new 
> installation. How could this happen? I had many restarts without this 
> issue.
>
> Any idea?
>
> Cheeers, Gerhard.
>
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