is there any hope for a solution to my problem?

[plowmail2010 at gmail.com]

My apologies if I am butting in.
Gene, you are probably savvy enough to have backed up your photo files.
If you haven't, do so.  If you have, make another backup.

And I think Maik's advice is good: start DigiKam from scratch, and force 
yourself to love collections and databases.

Bob

On 7/27/2023 3:08 PM, gene heskett wrote:
> On 7/27/23 02:04, Maik Qualmann wrote:
>>> I just found it, its a square outline only and its invisible until the
>>> mouse pointer is well centered on it, no damn wonder I could not 
>>> find it
>>> from your description of a round button next to the trash can icon. Now
>>> lets see if it works.
>>
>> Have you installed the Breeze Icon theme and activated it in the digiKam
>> settings?
>>
> I have it installed. I've now selected it in settings and restarted 
> digiKam. No visible change. Its still only visible as an orange square 
> outline if the mouse pointer is within that 3/16" square.
>
>>> When I click on update with Pictures highlited, it opens a requestor 
>>> and
>>> looks like I have to do it one subdir at a time, probably over 200 
>>> times
>>> for all of it, why can't I just do the whole thing in one swell foop?
>>
>> You have created 200 collections? You added all subdirectories as 
>> collections,
>> seriously?
>
> Database?  Whuzzat? This is a directory that has existed since I 
> bought my first digital camera in about 2000. So these are not 
> anything but normal .gif, .png or .jpg, not some database currupted 
> versions but straight out of the camera or maybe shrunk some more by 
> gimp so they could be emailed. Never ever saw a database, some 
> thumbnails created by jigl years ago too for what was then my web 
> pages before all the seacrates went over the side and drowned in 3 
> days a year back. Several previous versions of digiKam dating back to 
> buster, maybe even stretch had no problems dealing with this bare 
> directory, but bookworm broke it.
>
>> Sorry, start digiKam from scratch with a new database and 
>> configuration and
>> familiarize yourself with the digiKam collection idea.
>
> Only if the original images are preserved. All the pix of my first 
> family who have all perished are in that directory. I even created a 
> new Photos directory, put 5 new pix in it with shotwell, so it was 
> created by this filesystem. They both show up show up in the 
> collections menu but the final click gets another copy of the png I 
> posted, so nothing is fixed.
>
>> https://docs.digikam.org/en/getting_started.html
>> https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/collections_settings.html
>>
>> With your other error messages, it is not possible to say without 
>> having a
>> sample image whether these images are defective or what the problem 
>> is. I'm
>> out of here now.
>>
>> Maik
>>
>>
>> .
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett.