Bug 504699

Summary: digikam: Welcome screen inviting to initial setup while it was already done
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: mape1082
Component: Setup-MiscAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal CC: caulier.gilles, metzpinguin
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 8.2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Microsoft Windows   
OS: Microsoft Windows   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In: 8.7.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description mape1082 2025-05-23 14:33:45 UTC 
SUMMARY

I have an installation of digikam that was functioning nicely for several months. My pictures library contains around 75K pictures in 4k folders. SQL Lite db.

Yesterday evening I needed to use it (wanted to lookup a picture) however surprisingly digikam presented me with the Welcome to digikam 8.2.0 screen. I closed it and launched digikam again, just to be presented the same welcome again. 

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Random. I cannot reproduce this at will. I only know that yesterday I launched digikam that was already configured and working properly for several months and it is acting as it is the first time I run it, asking me for initial setup.


OBSERVED RESULT
Cannot use it as it is asking me to perform initial setup again

EXPECTED RESULT
It should honor the initial setup that I did several months ago, and keep working without making me lose effort or time or data


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 11 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
SQL Lite.

Please let me know how to solve this. I really don't want to setup again, I want to bring it back as it was before.
Exactly same issue happened long time ago and with previous version hence I updated and was expecting the same issue to be gone however it happened again.
Comment 1 Maik Qualmann 2025-05-23 14:50:51 UTC 
digiKam 8.2.0 is very old, update to the latest version (8.6.0). When the initial setup appears again, the digiKam configuration file "C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Lokal\digikamrc" is no longer present.
Check your hard drive and disable the antivirus program for digiKam.

I don't remember a similar problem being reported before.

Maik
Comment 2 mape1082 2025-05-23 15:23:40 UTC 
(In reply to Maik Qualmann from comment #1)
> digiKam 8.2.0 is very old, update to the latest version (8.6.0). When the
> initial setup appears again, the digiKam configuration file
> "C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Lokal\digikamrc" is no longer present.
> Check your hard drive and disable the antivirus program for digiKam.
> 
> I don't remember a similar problem being reported before.
> 
> Maik



Thanks for fast answer. I am checking:
    Directory: C:\Users\mape1\AppData\Local


Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                 -------------         ------ ----
d-----         02-Nov-23  11:14 PM                digikam
-a----         22-May-25   4:34 PM              0 digikamrc
-a----         22-May-25   4:34 PM             68 digikamrc.lock
-a----         18-Dec-23   1:43 PM            126 digikam_systemrc

the file is there, however 0 bytes.

I am comparing it with the last back up I made (late february) and digikamrc was 32kb size. I have no idea what truncated this file.

I checked my Norton installation and there is no log mentioning targeting this file. 

Update:

I just restored from my backup digikamrc and  digikam_systemrc, and the Welcome screen was not presented. Instead the application opened nicely and I have access again to my library.

Thanks a lot for the help!
Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2025-06-25 06:09:45 UTC 
Ok probably one RC config file was corrupted.