Ghost images in the database

[Maik Qualmann]

Compress your digikam4.db database and upload it to a file hoster and send me 
the link. I'll take a look at it, if possible I'll repair the database or add 
another procedure to our database maintenance tool.

Maik

Am Montag, 11. März 2024, 05:26:04 CET schrieb Milind Joshi:
> No response! I am at my wits' end trying to solve this problem. When I
> deleted my collections and added them back, all my searches went for a
> toss. I have dozens of them. I need to go through each search to set it
> up again. Would not attempt deleting the collections ever again!
> 
> As mentioned earlier, I had set up a search to look for Pentax images
> with no tags. When I run this search, there are some ghost image
> thumbnails which I am unable to delete from the search results.
> 
> I have uploaded a screenshot at
> https://efss.qloud.my/index.php/s/fTi4ynoLJpQePzC
> 
> mj
> 
> On 09.03.2024 05:49:44 pm, Milind Joshi wrote:
> > I had a crash on my laptop when digiKam was running. I guess it messed
> > up my database. Rather than spending huge amount of time on cleaning
> > up the database, I just deleted my collections and did the database
> > maintenance. Afterwords, I added the collections back. On the face of
> > it things seem to be working. Unless I find something missing in the
> > future! However, I noticed one thing immediately. I had set up a
> > search to find Pentax  Raw files which do not have any tags assigned.
> > When I run that search something strange happens. I see 268 images
> > with no thumbs, no file details, no metadata!! If I try to delete them
> > by moving them to trash nothing happens. How do I get rid of these
> > ghost files?
> > 
> > I have uploaded a screenshot of the search results at
> > https://efss.qloud.my/index.php/s/fTi4ynoLJpQePzC.
> > 
> > A strange problem indeed. Hopefully, there are no more surprises in
> > the future.
> > 
> > 
> > mj