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Hamish Downer
Asked: 2015-03-30 09:34:03 +0800 CST

Upgraded and digikam ignores most folders

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I have a new laptop and I've copied across my photo collection and digikam set up. But when I open up digikam, it shows me very few of my albums. I faithfully copied across my settings, including:

  • ~/.kde/share/apps/digikam/*
  • ~/.kde/share/config/digikamrc
  • ~/Photos/* with all my photos and including the sqlite database digikam4.db

But when I started, digikam didn't find most of my albums. I opened up digikam4.db from backups and after digikam had opened, and found that most of my albums had been deleted. How can I get digikam to show everything again?

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1 Answers

  1. Turns out that digikam saves the full path to the photos directory, not just relative to your home directory. I had to correct this in a few places as I had changed username when moving laptops, so the full path to the photos had changed from /home/user1/Photos to /home/user2/Photos.

    First I had to edit the text file digikamrc - gedit ~/.kde/share/config/digikamrc and search for user1. The settings were called "Database Name" and "Database Name Thumbnails".

    Then I had to edit some settings in the sqlite file. I did this by using the sqlitebrowser GUI app which allowed me to open digikam4.db, choose each table one by one, and then edit the contents by double-clicking on a cell in a table. The tables that needed updating were:

    • AlbumRoots - this had the full path to the albums in the identifier column. I had to change volumeid:?path=%2Fhome%2Fuser1%2FPhotos to volumeid:?path=%2Fhome%2Fuser2%2FPhotos and similar
    • Tags - the iconkde column has some entries where the tag image is a photo, which is saved as the full path to the photo, so they needed their paths updating.
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