database migration in 8.3.0: missing person

Paul A. Norman paul at paulanorman.info
Mon Apr 29 08:21:32 BST 2024


Dear Marcus,

Just checking - can you recall whether that 'person' was entered as your first original, or even last entry? 
Or just somewhere along the way sometime?

-Paul
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On 29 April 2024 4:00:25 pm NZST, Marcus Winston <marcus at thechocolatehouse.net> wrote:
>I did see that online doc, and followed it. What is confusing to me is 
>whether the faces data is, or is not, "migrate-able". That is, when 
>moving to MySQL Server, is all my previous face information essentially
>
>thrown away? When I read "all other databases have to be rebuilt as 
>post-processing...", I'm not sure exactly what that means.
>
>The Core database seems to have included all the face information, 
>except for one person (one face). Rebuilding the faces database did not
>
>change that. Hence, I'm a little confused.
>
>-MarcusW
>
>On 4/28/24 20:54, Gilles Caulier wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> See explanation from the online doc:
>>
>>
>https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/database_settings.html#database-migration
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Gilles Caulier
>>
>> Le lun. 29 avr. 2024 à 02:59, Marcus Winston
>> <marcus at thechocolatehouse.net> a écrit :
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I'm using digiKam 8.3.0 on Linux (AppImage), and migrating the
>database
>>> to MySQL Server on a NAS. In the process, I have found a "missing
>>> person". That is, one of the people in my "database" (I use that
>term
>>> loosely, as I'm not sure the right word) is missing. There are 2700
>>> pictures with this person's face identified in the SQLite version of
>>> "database". In the MySQL, after migrating it to the NAS, this person
>is
>>> entirely missing. All face tags with this person are gone.
>>>
>>> Is there any way to debug this? I don't really want to go through
>and
>>> manually re-train digiKam, and manually re-label a bunch of photos.
>It
>>> took me several hours to train it so far.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> MarcusW
>>>
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