[digiKam-users] DigiKam not responding

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi Nadine,

Download the "DebugView" program from Microsoft. This is what i mean.

Run it before digiKam to catch debug traces from the application. It's
explained on the "contribute" page from the project, in the "Freezes
and Other Run-Time Issues/Windows" section...

Gilles Caulier



Le dim. 19 mars 2023 à 10:02, Nadine Helkenn <cnhelkenn at comcast.net> a écrit :
>
> Hi, Gilles,
>
> I hope I have done this correctly.
>
> I have downloaded & installed the debug version of DigiKam 7.9.0 & done the same with DebugView.
>
> It doesn't seem to matter what operation I request. In this case it was just to assign a color label to an image. It is a .tif scan of a drawing. The progress bar stays at 0% & I have to force close DigiKam.
>
> Let me know what else I need to do.
>
> The log file just confuses me.
>
> Thank you, Gilles
>
> Nadine H
>
> ________________________________
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> Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2023 1:11 AM
> To: digikam-users at kde.org <digikam-users at kde.org>
> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] DigiKam not responding
>
> 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 comcastnet> a écrit :
> >
> > 18 March 2023
> >
> >
> > All right. I've broken DigiKam once again.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > Efforts: rebooted Windows. Restored database files to previous version (only two days ago was available).
> >
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >
> > Thanks for all of your collective knowledge & assistance.
> >
> > Nadine H
> >
> >
> >