Bug 171953

Summary:	Using create "Date-based sub-albums" makes import fail
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	MartinG <gronslet>
Component:	Import-Albums	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	caulier.gilles, marcel.wiesweg
Priority:	NOR
Version:	0.10.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	0.10.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description MartinG 2008-10-01 12:37:22 UTC

Version:           0.10.0-beta3 (using KDE 4.1.1)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

In the past, I have successfully used the option to create sub-albums based on date (ISO-date) when importing images from my memory card (through the internal card reader in my laptop).

This feature stopped working in version 0.10.0-beta2 (I think), and is still not working in 0.10.0-beta3. 

If the option to create sub-albums based on date is active, the import process fails with an error message saying "Failed to find album for path '/my/full/album/path'". I have tried to create a new album database, but that doesn't help. If I turn off "Date-based sub-albums" and choose the very same album, the import succeeds.

(By the way - the size of my cards as reported in parenthesis in "Import"/"USB Storage devices" and "Card readers" are both "1 TB", although the actual size in both cases is 2 GB)

Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2008-10-01 12:41:52 UTC

Marcel,

I think this one is database relevant...

Gilles

Comment 2 MartinG 2008-10-08 13:01:14 UTC

I was able to use the "date-based sub-albums" options again now, after deleting "digikam4.db" from my root album, deleting ~/.kde/config/digikamrc and ~/.kde/apps/digikam/. I then started digikam, selected my root album, chose import, card readers -> my card, selected all photos, checked create date-based sub-albums", and successfully imported all photos.

This might have been some glitch when moving from one beta to another beta - maybe there was something invalid in the .db?

So, I change resolution to WORKSFORME. I'll report back if the problem reappears. Thanks.

Comment 3 MartinG 2008-12-05 21:14:43 UTC

Well, this error came up once more, after uninstalling digikam and then installing version digikam-0.10.0-0.8.beta6.fc11.i386.
I did try the workaround (remove .db, digikamrc and the digikam/ folder), but I didn't work.

Any suggestions on how to debug this?

Comment 4 MartinG 2008-12-06 11:38:13 UTC

Just want to note that if I deselect "Date-based sub-albums", everything works fine (except that I don't get the subalbums that I want of course).

Comment 5 Marcel Wiesweg 2008-12-06 13:36:38 UTC

Yes this error is well known, we have been redirecting reports about failure to create date-based subalbums to 175322, so marking this as a duplicate of 175322.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 175322 ***