SOLVED - 8.9.0: Digikam keeps rescanning complete collection on each restart & grouped images are gone

[Ronald ORENSTEIN]

  Is this fix available on a Mac build? I have been having the same problem.
  
  
  
  
  
  Ronald Orenstein 1825 Shady Creek Court Mississauga, ON L5L 3W2 Canada   ronorenstein.blogspot.com   

  
  
          
  

  
  
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> On Dec 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM,  <Jens Benecke (mailto:jens-digikam at spamfreemail.de)>  wrote:
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>  Hello, I just tested the current Appimage (of 2025-12-02) and with a restore of my digikam4.db from a week ago, things are back to normal again. Thank you for fixing this bug so quickly and for providing a solution. Also, to everybody: backup regularly. Really. You never know. 🙂 Jens Am 02.12.25 um 08:16 schrieb Maik Qualmann:  >  The problem is now fixed in git/master and will be available in one of the next  >  AppImages.  >   >  https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/commit/  >  0838075dbb3dd7230a929e3cad56bb6143590046  >   >  We introduced a directory cache to minimize repeated scanning of the  >  collection. This scanner was not following symbolic links. Thank you for  >  reporting the issue.  >   >  Maik  >   >  Am Montag, 1. Dezember 2025, 23:17:06 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit schrieb  >  Jens Benecke:  >>  Hello all,  >>   >>  I have been using Digikam on my PC for over 10 years and I'm still happy  >>  with it. My image collection is now way over 500GB, almost 200'000 files  >>  altogether, and all this worked fine on an i5-4570 4-core PC from 2013.  >>   >>  Until last weekend.  >>   >>  Since having upgraded from the 8.8.0 appimage (beginning of November) to  >>  8.9.0 appimage (current), Digikam keeps rescanning my complete default  >>  collection at /home/jens/Bilder (not the second one, and not one on an  >>  external drive), which takes about 2 hours since it's about 160.000  >>  images and 473 GB of data.  >>  /home/jens/Bilder/Digikam is a symlink to a different drive, but this  >>  has never been a problem and this drive is permanently mounted, so I  >>  don't see the problem here.  >>   >>  Even if I let it finish and exit cleanly, the next time it will again  >>  rescan the complete collection.  >>   >>  Also I noticed that my album properties (e.g. album dates) and image  >>  groupings are gone since this happened the first time.  >>   >>  What happened here?  >>  How can I fix this, and - possibly - even restore my image groupings?  >>   >>  I attached a debug log output (with the Marble log lines removed - too  >>  many) from starting the appimage on the console - maybe this helps.  >>   >>  Thank you!  >   >   >  -- Regards, Jens  
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