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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Due to many Digikam freezes when using the batch tool manager, I've been obliged to deactivate the 'write to file' metadata setting.<br>
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<div><div><div>However, when I want to write metadata to a couple of images - using the Images -> Write metadata to image menu, there is no option to override the general setting. So I need to modify the setting first, then do the rewrite metadata for pictures I want to publish, then go back to deactivate the setting again.<br>
<br></div>Could you provide some easier option? Having different settings for batch tool manager and image menu, for example? Or giving the ability to override temporarily the setting when using the Image menu?<br><br></div>
Thanks for considering this modification.<span><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div><div>The right question is why it freeze on your computer.</div></div></div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>We had this discussion a while ago, I think. ;-)<br></div><div>At that time, you seemed to think that the culprits were my USB external drives.<br></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ah yes, i remember. The best test is to copy a collection to a local disk and to try to reproduce the problem. If it do not appear, it's clear that USB drive storage is the problem.</div>
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<div>Did you tried to turn off multi-core cpu support in BQM queue settings and see if it's better ?</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>It's unchecked.<br></div><div class="im"><div>
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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div><br></div><div>Did you run digiKam in GDB and get a suitable backtrace when it freeze. It's possible that a crash appear in Exiv2 shared lib, and not digiKam as well. In this case the way to use Images -> Write metadata to image will give the same king of freeze..</div>
</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>What is GDB by the way?<br></div><div>For me, the difference seems to be the number of pictures that have to be rewritten: if they are only a couple, it works OK; but when I use the batch tool manager - or tag many images at a time - Digikam gets stucked.<br>
</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This can be a memory problem, but not sure....</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-01-31 Gilles Caulier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com" target="_blank">caulier.gilles@gmail.com</a>></span>:<div class="im"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Other questions :<br>
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- What's your metadata settings exactly ? Perhaps it's a specific<br>
option which freeze metadata writting process.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>It's either Write to XMP sidecar only, when I want to avoid freezing problems; or Write to Image and sidecar, when I need to apply EXIF/IPTC to images.<br>
</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>ok, nothing really special here...</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
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- Which type of images did you manage like this ? Raw or JPEG or both<br>
or another one as PNG or TIFF ?<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>99% of the time, it is TIFF that I need to resize/convert/sharpen in order to produce JPEG for publishing.<br></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>I know that tiff is a difficult format to handle in Exiv2, due the complexity of container. The most recent version of Exiv2 must be better (released in december 2013) </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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- Can you look about memory allocation in your computer to see if all<br>
is not filled. I fixed several memory issue in mantenance tool (which<br>
share some code with BQM). This can be the problem.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Humm... I have no idea how to do that. Can you give me a hint?<br></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>
GDB is debugger. running digiKam into GDB can provide very suitable information about crash, especially to hack. We can know where the dysfunction appears.</div><div><br></div><div>Gilles </div></div></div></div>