I just upgraded my Pi4 environment to 3.5.5 beta, and I'm seeing a kstars pop-up on launch asking if I want to import custom and internet resolved objects from the old DSO database into the new one.    I (sortof) rationalized I might expect this message once (and I said yes), but it comes up repeatedly for every kstars launch.   There are no custom/internet objects to transition, so after saying "yes", another pop-up says "successfully added 0 objects to the user catalog".  Following dismissal of those pop-ups, I get a final pop-up prompt requesting whether the old DB (skycomponents.sqlite) is to be moved to a backup file.   This is also repetitive each kstars launch.  After dismissing these prompts, Kstars seems to finish launching normally.  

Are these repetitive pop-up messages on launch a "new" normal, or do they indicate something wrong in the file system setup?    I see the requested file seemingly properly located in ~/.local/share/kstars directory, with 644 stellarmate/stellarmate permissions....    Any advice on how to satisfy/eliminate the pop-ups?   Thanks...

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