Collections are suddenly gone in DK

[Thomas]

Thank you so much for looking into this!

Perhaps I stopped DK too early and thus it did not produce errors in the 
logs....


What I did after I sent you logs was that I started DK and let it run 
for a long time (it is still running) while producing a new log.

It is doing *something*...

I guess I can let it run until tomorrow and see if it eventually finds 
the albums....

My collection is hundreds of thousands of photos - > 1 TB. So it will 
take a long time if it needs to scan through everything....




On 08/09/2025 20.39, Maik Qualmann wrote:
> 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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