Bug 491886 - digiKam erase my photos
Summary: digiKam erase my photos
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: digikam
Classification: Applications
Component: Import-PostProcessing (show other bugs)
Version: 8.4.0
Platform: Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows
: NOR critical
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Digikam Developers
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Reported: 2024-08-19 06:25 UTC by PELAOSOTO
Modified: 2024-10-14 04:10 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Attachments
ImageKam erase the photos (571 bytes, text/plain)
2024-08-19 06:25 UTC, PELAOSOTO
Details
attachment-1609382-0.html (3.94 KB, text/html)
2024-08-19 20:39 UTC, PELAOSOTO
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Description PELAOSOTO 2024-08-19 06:25:33 UTC
Created attachment 172742 [details]
ImageKam erase the photos

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SUMMARY


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Using imageKam, reading the photos from an external HD
2. Select 709 photos and when modifying preferences, indicate to create subfolders by capture date. Close preferences.
3. Then when importing to imageKam from HD, . It was generating a little Message that it could not create the folder for example 19112019.... and continue to stop the process

OBSERVED RESULT
and so it continued until it only imported the name of the photos but NOT THE FILE or the content, nor the exif data or metadata. They are no longer visible in imageBank and neither in the source on the Hard Drive.

EXPECTED RESULT
How can I reverse the action and recover the photos

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows:  10 pro
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
KDE Plasma Version: 
KDE Frameworks Version: 
Qt Version: 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
ImageKam: 8.4.0
Comment 1 PELAOSOTO 2024-08-19 06:28:44 UTC
Comment on attachment 172742 [details]
ImageKam erase the photos

I JUST WANTED TO INDEX MY OLD AND VALUABLE PHOTOS AND SURELY THE CONTENT WAS DELETED BY MISTAKE AND I CANNOT SEE THEM
Comment 2 Maik Qualmann 2024-08-19 08:09:25 UTC
I can't understand what you did exactly based on your description. Creating subfolders is only possible in the import tool. Did you import images and then use the delete option?

An external hard drive is not normally "imported". It is added as an external collection in the collection settings.

Maik
Comment 3 PELAOSOTO 2024-08-19 20:39:34 UTC
Created attachment 172761 [details]
attachment-1609382-0.html

It's what I expected it to do, just add it, but the options it gives
me in Spanish are Download new, Download Selected, Download all.What I
did in that option was change the configuration so that it created
subfolders based on the capture date. and nothing more, when applying
the import all option. I was looking at how to do the operation and
below I saw the message that the creation of the folders was failing
(shooting date). In the end they all passed, but only the name without
metadata, without photo, without image, or thumbnail.Today I tried
selecting another folder 85 photos from hard drive. And when I search
for the import option, the disk appears recognized as a memory stick
reader (USB) and I take risks. The same thing happened: I imported the
photos, that is, I copied them and it also told me that I couldn't
create the subfolders. I pass all the photos together, therefore I
have duplicate photos on the external drive and within the drive where
I have imageKam.It is not clear to me how to create the database
without creating another file.Perhaps in the failed pass, I tried to
keep the folder on the same external drive but it didn't.And by the
way... the 709 photos were lost in origin and import. Only the empty
names and 0 bytes remained.How to reverse? can?


El lun, 19 ago 2024 a las 4:09, Maik Qualmann (<bugzilla_noreply@kde.org>)
escribió:

> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=491886
>
> Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin@gmail.com> changed:
>
>            What    |Removed                     |Added
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>             Summary|imageKam Erase my photos    |digiKam erase my photos
>                  CC|                            |metzpinguin@gmail.com
>             Version|unspecified                 |8.4.0
>
> --- Comment #2 from Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin@gmail.com> ---
> I can't understand what you did exactly based on your description. Creating
> subfolders is only possible in the import tool. Did you import images and
> then
> use the delete option?
>
> An external hard drive is not normally "imported". It is added as an
> external
> collection in the collection settings.
>
> Maik
>
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