Dates missing from my digiKam database

[Michael Hamilton]

On Mon, 13 Jul 2026, Randolph M. Fritz wrote:
> Or at least, the dates don’t show up in the “Dates” view.
>
> It’s an internal mySQL database. Is there any easy way to repair this?
> Or would it be better just to migrate to SQLite? (I have 653 GB of image
> files.)
>
> > digiKam: 9.1.0
> > KDE Frameworks: 6.26.0
> > Qt: Using 6.11.0 and built against 6.11.0
> > macOS Sequoia (15.7.7)
> > Build ABI: arm64-little_endian-lp64
> > Kernel: darwin 24.6.0

With things being in this state for a while, I'm looking for workarounds.

I have a 9GB database on fast nvme.  With mysql in the current broken
state, can I safely use digikams migration tool to relocate it's content 
back to SQLite? 

Michael