Dates missing from my digiKam database

[Gilles Caulier]

Migrating the databases without dates will not solve the problem. The
items are not re-scanned.

Try to run the maintenance tool and be forced to scan all items.

Note: MySQL has diverged from MariaDB in terms of compatibility,
particularly with the latest versions of MySQL. We strongly recommend
using MariaDB instead of MySQL.

Best regards

Gilles Caulier

Le mer. 15 juil. 2026 à 07:20, Randolph M. Fritz <rmfritz3 at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> Since no-one replied, I ran the migration and…nothing happened. It didn't change the database in settings, and the dates didn't reappear. Do I have to rebuild the database from scratch? How do I even do that?
> --
> Randolph M. Fritz || rmfritz3 at gmail.com
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM Randolph M. Fritz <rmfritz3 at gmail.com> 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
>>
>> --
>> Randolph M. Fritz || rmfritz3 at gmail.com