Collections are suddenly gone in DK

[Thomas]

Hi Maik,

I let DK run for many hours more. It seemed to have found some more 
albums. Up until 2024. But then it stopped.

I have now started and stopped DK multiple times. I have also clicked 
Refresh on the Albums folder. It still does not seem to find the rest of 
the collection.

What might cause this?

Would a reinstall of DK help at all?


BR

Thomas


On 2025-09-08 21.20, Thomas wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>>