Re: Collections are suddenly gone in DK

Thomas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.
>
>
>
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