digikam want to reinstall after crash - help

[frederic chaume]

Hi

thanks for your feedback
it is only a typo in the mail, the correct name is Bretagne
and I confirm there is no other tag at root level, in the caption the 
tags is correctly presented as a hierarchical tree

Frederic


Le 05/04/2023 à 11:14, Frédéric Da Vitoria a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> You are sure you don't have another tag "Bretagne" at the root level ? 
> This has happened to me a few times.
>
> Also, I notice that you wrote "pays"/"bretagne", but that later you 
> wrote "Bretagne". I wouldn't be surprised if tags were case-sensitive.
>
> Le 05/04/2023 à 09:45, frederic chaume a écrit :
>> Hi gilles
>>
>> as I didn't have any backup, I have proceeded with the reinstallation 
>> steps.
>> Good news the database has been recovered from the path I have 
>> indicated during the installation steps and now I'm trying to rebuild 
>> all the configurations I had before the crash.
>> I think I have done it more or less, the remaining point is relative 
>> to the behavior of the hierarchical tag management.
>>
>> For example I have a tag tree like this one : "pays"/"bretagne"
>> Before the crash, setting (or unsetting)   the tag "Bretagne" was 
>> setting (or unsetting)  also the parent automaticaly ("pays" )
>> Today it is no more the case and  setting (or unsetting)   the tag 
>> "Bretagne" doesn't change the parent tag status ("pays" )
>>
>> I din't find the option in the configuration to retreive this 
>> behavior. Could you help me ?
>> For information, in the settings/metadata/advanced/tag I have put the 
>> namespace in the following order (based on recent exchange I got with 
>> you and Maik)
>> - lr.hierarchicalSubject
>> - dc.subject
>> - digikam.TagLists
>> ...
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Frederic
>>
>> Le 04/04/2023 à 16:54, Gilles Caulier a écrit :
>>> Le mar. 4 avr. 2023 à 16:48, frederic chaume
>>> <frederic.chaume at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>>> Hi Gilles
>>>>
>>>> ok got it, thanks
>>>>
>>>> If I consider that %LocalAppData% is pointing to 
>>>> "~\AppData\Local\digikam", and if I compare to what I have , it 
>>>> seems several files are missing:
>>>>
>>>> digikamrc
>>>> digikam_systemrc
>>>> digikam
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> content of ~\AppData\Local\digikam is today :
>>>>
>>>> digikam_oauthrc
>>>> kipioauthrc
>>> For this one, no. They store tokens and IDs for the remote web 
>>> services.
>>>
>>>> and some XML files (mediaserver, queue and template)
>>> Nope. Customized settings are recorded here after starting digiKam and
>>> play with these tools configurations.
>>>
>>> You need a recent backup to restore these files. Sorry.
>>>
>>> Gilles
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