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<big>I've all but given up using digiKam on Windows. The path via KDE
on Windows is cumbersome, inefficient, and to this non-Linux guy,
completely inscrutable. (Why MUST I download scientific games and
tools, for instance?) Further, digiKam is now several releases along
and as of a week or two ago, KDE for Win is just snoozing. Last update
was in February.<br>
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The problems I typically get are crashes with a "Runtime Error"
message, especially when trying to save a modified file. I also can't
get thumbnails for 48 bit images that I make from film scans although
Picassa has no trouble making its own. The scan system has caused many
crashes when I first set things up. I eventually found that a folder
that contained some non jpg-tiff-etc files made it blow up. <br>
<br>
But I do love digiKam when it works! So much so, that I spent dozens
of hours trying to do things like install that Ubuntu program that uses
Windows (didn't work on two computers), tried it running live CD's, and
Virtual Box (head banging trying to get it to read the files on the
native Windows partition. I gave up on that, too.<br>
<br>
So maybe in the next week I'll take an old Windows 2000 box I have,
install Ubuntu or other distro, and use my KBV switch for the monitor
and keyboard that I use on "The Mothership." I'll still have to deal
with the image files remaining on the Windows box where they
automatically get backed up by Carbonite. Does anyone know if digiKam
running on LInux can read and scan the files on Windows via the usual
ethernet?<br>
<br>
digiKam is the best similar program out there, bar none. And the price
is right! I just wish it didn't have to run on KDE. Xnview, a less
capable but very nice "Irfanview with browser" level, can run on
Windows, Linux, or Mac. <br>
<br>
No &^#&*))$^^ KDE needed.<br>
<br>
Paul</big><br>
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Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 09:15:39 -0400
From: David Kerber <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dkerber@miner.mst.edu"><dkerber@miner.mst.edu></a>
Subject: [Digikam-users] DigiKam on windows instability
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I've got digikam 1.1.0 (through a kde on windows install) on a
fully-patched win XP machine, and am having significant stability issues
when trying to move my pictures around into different folders.
Yesterday it probably hung or crashed 10 times over the course of the
day, and I can't see any real pattern to it, except that it was usually
when moving pictures from one folder to another. However, it doesn't
always crash when moving them, only sometimes.
The symptoms are usually either that digikam just hangs for a minute or
two using 80% cpu, and then just disappears with no notice, but
sometimes gives me a vc library error (something about requesting an
unusual way of shutting down), and sometimes I get a Dr Watson error.
And the function to delete pictures simply doesn't work. The pictures
don't disappear from either the album, nor from the HD.
Are these file-management issues likely to have been fixed in a later
release that hasn't been ported windows yet?
D
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