[digiKam-users] DigiKam not responding

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

It sounds like the metadata writing pipeline is locked somewhere.
Which kind of files do you want to tag exactly ?

Also, we need to see the debug traces done in background while tag
operation. download Microsoft DebugView program, and run it before the
digiKam session. See here for details :

https://www.digikam.org/contribute/

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le dim. 19 mars 2023 à 01:42, Nadine Helkenn <cnhelkenn at comcast.net> a écrit :
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> 18 March 2023
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> All right. I've broken DigiKam once again.
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> I wish I knew how I do this so I can avoid doing it. It has been more than a year since the last time it broke, and I can't remember how to fix it. And I don't think it broke the same way.
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> I'm working in Windows 10 using SQLite. I recently updated from DigiKam 7.7.0 to 7.9.0 to see if that would fix the problem. It did not. I had to manually update exiftool from 12.42 to 12.58.
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> Symptom: adding tags to images appears to work, but the progress bar for "Writing metadata to file:" stays at 0% and never finishes. Thumbnail images don't display. Images can be seen in preview. DigiKam app says it is not responding.
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> Efforts: rebooted Windows. Restored database files to previous version (only two days ago was available).
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> Have I corrupted the database files? Can I get Digikam to rebuild them? Are all 4-5 of them compromised? What is my best course of action?
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> Thanks for all of your collective knowledge & assistance.
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> Nadine H
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