[Digikam-users] Digikam not recognising already downloaded photos

[Stuart T Rogers]

In my view even if it uses file name and device downloaded from there is 
still no reason why this should not work.

I am still hoping someone who knows the internals can explain how this 
works and whether this function is performed by digikam itself or relies 
on some other code to detect this, that way I'll know where to open a 
bug report.

I will try and see if digikam remembers by creating a new photo and 
download it via the card reader, and then see if it comes up as new or 
not on a second try.

I seem to remember that digikam gets it correct if you dont restart it 
between attempts but again I'll have to test that.

This problem is such a pain to me as my wife does not like to clear 
photos off her memory cards unless it gets full so I have to make sure I 
know what has been downloaded already (or sit here skipping photos 
manually and when you have 400+ its a pain).

Stuart

On 07/29/2012 08:32 AM, Anders Stedtlund wrote:
> There is probably a table having a relation between downloaded images
> and the device they were downloaded from. I have had problems with
> digikam not remember images downloaded from my Canon EOS 50d.
>
> Now I use a external card reader and don't have the problem any
> longer. I use digiKam 2.7.0 at the moment.
>
> /Anders
>
> 2012/7/28 Stuart T Rogers <stuart at stella-maris.org.uk>:
>> I can see all the photos correctly listed in the sqlite database so I dont
>> know what else to look for.
>>
>> Stuart
>>
>>
>> On 07/28/2012 09:10 PM, Peter Albrecht wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Stuart,
>>>
>>> this bug happens to me too, every now and than. But I had no
>>> time to investigate this jet.
>>>
>>> What I would do to debug:
>>> I would try to find out, where digikams stores information
>>> about pictures beeing old/new. Than I would look where
>>> writing or reading this information fails.
>>>
>>> But since I am only a digikam user - no developer - I do not
>>> exactly know, where to look for. But I would first try the
>>> digikam SQLite Database. ;)
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>          Peter
>>>
>>> On 28.07.2012 16:15, Stuart T Rogers wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Following my rant the other day I have done some testing
>>>> using both the camera and the USB card reader. I am running
>>>> digikam 2.7.0 with gphoto2 at 2.4.14.
>>>>
>>>> All the photos on the camera were downloaded a few days ago
>>>> so there are no new ones to download. All photos are visible
>>>> in the correct folder in digikam.
>>>>
>>>> My Canon SX10IS is detected OK but all photos on the card
>>>> are displayed as new whether I use the auto-detected option
>>>> or the one I had pre-defined.
>>>>
>>>> So next I added my USB card reader and put the card directly
>>>> into it, again all the displayed photos on the card come up
>>>> as new.
>>>>
>>>> At no time have I been able to get this working now for
>>>> absolutely ages.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone suggest where to go from here please? I am
>>>> willing to try and debug this but have no idea where to start.
>>>>
>>>> Stuart
>>>>
>>>> On 07/23/2012 09:26 PM, Stuart T Rogers wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I am now running 2.7 and still digikam will not recognise
>>>>> that several
>>>>> of the photos on my Canon SX10IS camera are not new.
>>>>>
>>>>> I simply do not understand why this is so hard to get to
>>>>> work properly,
>>>>> it used to work OK on 1.9 properly. The photos filenames
>>>>> are still the
>>>>> same for those already downloaded, and the meta data is
>>>>> there. This
>>>>> should not be rocket science, everything in the database
>>>>> is there to
>>>>> recognise that some of these images have already been
>>>>> downloaded so why
>>>>> on earth can digikam get it so wrong? Sorry but I cannot
>>>>> see any excuse
>>>>> not to fix this....
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry for the rant but this is becoming a real nuisance
>>>>> and annoyance
>>>>> especially as it is a problem which used not to exist!
>>>>>
>>>>> Stuart
>>>>
>>>>
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