Digikam file takes up a lot of space

[Andrew Goodbody]

Every time you swap to a new batch of photos, just delete the thumbnails 
database. You probably have thumbnails for all the photos you have ever 
tagged in there, which is not useful if they are not visible to digikam 
any more. In theory I think there is supposed to be some garbage 
collection that will remove obsolete entries but it does not happen 
immediately and who knows actually how well it works. With your comments 
it sounds like it is not doing its job very well.

Andrew

On 06/01/18 10:24, WILDLIFE-HELP A.N. wrote:
> Hi JDD,
> 
> Thank you for the quick response!
> 
> Yes, it's over 38GB. I have about 400,000 photos that I've finished 
> tagging and continuously get more and more. What I do is I'll put about 
> 10,000 images in the collections album, tag them, write metadata to each 
> file, then move them back to my hard drive and put untagged images in 
> the albums/collections folder again.
> 
> I will have a look at the mysql settings in a minute.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Philip
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
> 
> 
> -------- Original message --------
> From: jdd at dodin.org
> Date: 2018/01/06 12:18 (GMT+02:00)
> To: digikam-users at kde.org
> Subject: Re: Digikam file takes up a lot of space
> 
> Le 06/01/2018 à 11:06, WILDLIFE-HELP A.N. a écrit :
> 
>> In my database folder there is a file called: "thumbnails-digikam.db" 
>> which takes up over 38 GB 
> 
> are you sure? for around 50.000 images I use only 4Gb for this file!
> 
> may be you can use mysql on remote?
> 
> jdd
> 
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