Created attachment 114879 [details] Screenshot showing invisible tags I reread the metadata from a large number of tags. Digikam crashed and now doesn't show Places, or any of its child tags. They are still somewhere in the database, because digikam displays an error when I try to add a Places tag see attached.
Probably the database file become corrupted while the crash. Under Windows, playing with metadata is problematic with the low level Exiv2 library. In 6.0.0, we introduce a guard, especially for Windows and C++ exception. I recommend to rebuild your database with the current Windows 6.0.0-beta1 installer available here : https://files.kde.org/digikam/ Take a care : make a database backup has 6.0.0 introduce new tables and break the backward compatibility with 5.9.0 Gilles Caulier
Sure that Places no longer exist? The screenshot does not give that. Because Places would come after Pets... Maik
Places has reappeared after restarting digikam several times. I will try 6.0.0, please can you tell me which files need to be backed up. When I copied files from my old laptop to new one digikam still started with an empty database, so I guess I didn't save the right files.
digiKam 7.0.0 stable release is now published and now available as FlatPak: https://www.digikam.org/news/2020-07-19-7.0.0_release_announcement/ We need a fresh feedback on this file using this version. Thanks in advance Gilles Caulier
Hi Steve and happy new year, To migrate to a new computer, backport the database files for your collections. Setup digiKam to point to the right place where database files are located. There is also the main configuration file located in your home directory : /home/_YOU_/.config/digikamrc And the XML data files customized by you : /home/_YOU_/.local/share/digikam About collection UUID stored in a new disk, you will need to edit/update the identifier in collection setup page. Please use digiKam 7.5.0 pre-release Windows installer available here : https://files.kde.org/digikam/ Best GIlles Caulier
@Steve, digiKam 8.0.0 is out. This entry still valid with this release ? Best regards Gilles Caulier
(In reply to caulier.gilles from comment #6) > @Steve, > > digiKam 8.0.0 is out. This entry still valid with this release ? > > Best regards > > Gilles Caulier I haven't seen this error in any version since I reported it. Regards Steve