unable to setup MySQL internal

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

Which digiKam version did you use ?

Can you run digiKAm from a Terminal to capture run time traces as
explained here :

https://www.digikam.org/contribute/#macos-host

Best regards

Gilles Caulier

Le mer. 2 juil. 2025 à 09:38, Harro Roders <digihr at ziggo.nl> a écrit :
>
> Hello,
>
> I am new to Digikam and I am trying to setup MySQL internal on my macbook pro M4 Sequioa 15.5. I dit get it to work on SQlite and it works very nice but my database is large around 200000 pictures so I want to change to MySQL internal.
> Last thing I tried Is return to set up with a empty folder for collections and a new folder for de Database files. Digikam does find the required files as I see a V in front of the files but it returns with the following warning:
>
> An error occurred during the internal server start.
>
> Details: Could not start database initializer.
>
> Executable: /Applications/digiKam.org/digikam.app/Contents/lib/mariadb/
> bin/mariadb-install-db
>
> Arguments: --defaults-file=/Applications/digiKam.org/digikam.app/ Contents/Resources/digikam/database/mysql-global.conf, --basedir=/ Applications/digiKam.org/digikam.app/Contents/1ib/mariadb/, --datadir=/
> Users/ludoroders/Documents/DigiKam_belangrijk_niet wissen/
> DigikamDBinternal/.mysql.digikam/db_data
>
> Process error: Unknown error
>
> Please check the database settings in this dialog.
>
> Hoop someone can help.
>
> regards
> Harry
>