Collections are suddenly gone in DK

Maik Qualmann metzpinguin at gmail.com
Mon Sep 8 19:39:34 BST 2025


Thanks for the log, I don't see any problems. The network collections are 
found and are online. The root network albums are being added. At least the 
root album names should appear in the album tree.
I have no idea what's wrong with that; there are no error messages from the 
core DB either.
Could it be that the scroll bars aren't visible for some reason, and the 
network collection is below your local album tree? Try resizing/minimizing the 
window?

Maik

Am Montag, 8. September 2025, 12:50:43 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb 
Thomas:
> It is indeed MacOS on Apple Silicon (M3)
> 
> I have sent the log. Not sure how much log to capture. But I just
> started DK and let it run for a few moments. Let me know if you need more.
> 
> Thanks for looking in to this!
> 
> 
> BR
> 
> Thomas
> 
> On 08/09/2025 12.27, Maik Qualmann wrote:
> > 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.






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