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Vlado Plaga | 1 Jan 2010 18:00
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Re: digkam albums don't update on the fly

Am Fri, 1 Jan 2010 15:29:10 +0100
schrieb Martin Senftleben <DrMartinus@...>:
> I'm sure it's related 
> to the database (handling), but have no clue what could be wrong.

Dear Martin,

it sounds like you are still struggling with some digiKam issues, which
might be related to a somehow corrupted database. I recommend the
following:

1. Make sure you have a good backup of your pictures and the related
   digikam files (database and configuration).

2. If you hadn't selected "safe metadata to pictures" previously,
   do so now, then go to "tools" / "Write Metadata to images" ("Extras/
   Metadaten in alle Bilder schreiben" in German). I think I found a
   bug in that function: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220202
   So you might have to locate directories with more than 200 pictures
   ("find . -type d -exec ls -ld \{} \;", look at the number after
   owner and group) and update their metadata individually.

3. Take a new Linux test user, or directly move your old configuration
   (~/.kde/share/config/digikamrc) and database (either in your
   pictures directory, or it does not matter) out of the way (without
   deleting them), and have digiKam create a new configuration for the
   pictures.

I had my database recreated this way, but first lost some ratings, as
you can read in the aforementioned bug report. If that is still
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Martin Senftleben | 1 Jan 2010 19:02
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Re: digkam albums don't update on the fly

Hi Vlado,

thanks for your efforts and suggestion!
I'll give it a try, but before that I would like to make sure 
everything is done right. Please check my questions and comments 
below.

Am Freitag 01 Januar 2010 schrieb Vlado Plaga:
> Am Fri, 1 Jan 2010 15:29:10 +0100
> 
> 2. If you hadn't selected "safe metadata to pictures" previously,

I looked for that option and didn't find it. Where is it?

>    do so now, then go to "tools" / "Write Metadata to images"
>  ("Extras/ Metadaten in alle Bilder schreiben" in German). 

Ouch, that will take long. I have about 50.000 images in the various 
folders.

>  I think
>  I found a bug in that function:
>  https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220202 So you might have to
>  locate directories with more than 200 pictures ("find . -type d
>  -exec ls -ld \{} \;", look at the number after owner and group)
>  and update their metadata individually.

ok, I'll check that.

> > F5 won't change anything, and it takes very long on a folder with
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Vlado Plaga | 1 Jan 2010 23:39
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Re: digkam albums don't update on the fly

Am Fri, 1 Jan 2010 19:02:41 +0100
schrieb Martin Senftleben <DrMartinus@...>:

> > 2. If you hadn't selected "safe metadata to pictures" previously,
> 
> I looked for that option and didn't find it. Where is it?

German: Einstellungen / digiKam einrichten / Metadaten
English: Settings / configure digiKam / Metadata

I marked everything except "Write meta data to RAW files
(experimental)". My camera only produces JPEG files, so this is not an
issue for me.

> >    do so now, then go to "tools" / "Write Metadata to images"
> >  ("Extras/ Metadaten in alle Bilder schreiben" in German). 
> 
> Ouch, that will take long. I have about 50.000 images in the various 
> folders.

It did take an hour or so for the 2000 pictures on my (slow)
computer... but even if it would take 24 hours for you, that should not
really be a problem.

A bigger problem is the bug with writing meta data to _all_ images. If
you don't have many folders with more than 200 pictures - ok, you can
fix them by hand. Otherwise you should probably wait for a fix or a
workaround. I tried selecting all the pictures I wanted to write the
tags to, then selected "write metadata to image", but this caused
digiKam to freeze with 'just' 1500 pictures (from one directory with
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