is there any hope for a solution to my problem?

[gene heskett]

On 7/27/23 16:05, plowmail2010 at gmail.com wrote:
> 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.

Drives ordered, 6Tb worth so I can run amanda again.

Thanks.
> 
> 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.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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