Collections are suddenly gone in DK

[Maik Qualmann]

It looks like macOS, please send me a debug log from the terminal when 
starting digiKam to my private email, as described here:

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

Maik

Am Montag, 8. September 2025, 11:38:36 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb 
Thomas:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> I recently recovered from backup and as part of that I recovered my DK
> settings, collections, .db files, etc.
> 
> 
> All that seemed to work just fine for several days.
> 
> 
> Now suddenly, when I start DK my collections seem to be gone.
> 
> This scares me a bit as my collections are quite big. And especially one
> of them is more than a decade old and I have put a huge amount of time
> into it.
> 
> When I look at the db files for DK, they do not seem to have reduced
> dramatically in size. For example, the thumbnails.db is still tens of GB
> in size. So I do not think everything has been purged. But what would
> cause it to suddenly not show up in the UI?
> 
> How do I get my collections back in DK?
> 
> 
> In DK settings, these are my collections:
> 
> (names and PII redacted for privacy)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> When I go to Albums module, I only see the Pictures-local album.
> 
> 
> 
> Note, the network volumes /are mounted/ on the specified paths.