Here’s the setup: you have a computer which has a SD port (small memory cards, mostly used in cameras, phones, etc.). You want to get all of your photos from that card automatically as soon as you insert your card (may be a USB key as well), that is, run a script which will search for all of your photos, and copy them to a local directory.

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I’ll try to explain some methods and tips on how to recover from a mix in db libraries, or from messages like:

• DBERROR: reading /var/lib/cyrus/db/skipstamp, assuming the worst: No such file or directory
• DBERROR db4: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
• DBERROR: critical database situation

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