Dates missing from my digiKam database

[Randolph M. Fritz]

Thanks. I've been using mySQL internal which, at least on the Mac, is in
fact Maria.

Which option of the maintenance tool should I use? The metadata
synchronizer? Or some other option?

-- 
Randolph M. Fritz || rmfritz3 at gmail.com

On Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 4:51 AM Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
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