I reorganized the drive structure in my PC on windows and the old DB was not working because file locations had changed. So I deleted the whole damn thing and tried starting from scratch (100s of thousands of images and tags). Now when I try to start the application all I get is this alert:

The SQLite core database was not found, please set the correct location in the next dialog.

When I select a folder it expects an existing DB but I don't have one and I want to start over so it becomes an endless loop and there's no option to create a new DB so I can start from scratch.

I love the features of digiKam so I don't want to give up on this. What am I doing wrong?

I have the same problem . Try folder "c:\users\xx\AppData\Local" to find digikamrc and delete it , u will have a refresh start

Thank you, this solved my problem.