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<div><br>Thank you for this fine piece of software (8.6). It gets better and better with each release.</div>
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<div>However, I am currently somewhat dissatisfied with my workflow and would like to benefit from your experience. These points should not be taken as criticism, I'm just describing challenges in my workflow that I don't know how to improve as a beginner. </div>
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<div style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I have some images on a network drive that is connected very slowly. The databases are all stored locally on a SSD. The fact that the initial import process takes a little longer is not a problem for me. Unfortunately, the subsequent keywording process is also very slow and it sometimes takes several seconds to switch to the next image. I currently open the images in Preview to add faces or other markers. I assume that Preview creates previews from the real images and does not use the thumbnails. Is there a way to change this? Or what is your workflow here? I would also like to be able to do keywording without network drives connected. The low resolution thumbnails would be sufficient for me. However, this is not part of the Digikam concept, is it?</div>
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<div>Face recognition has improved significantly since it was first introduced. This is a great evolution of the tool. Thanks. I set it to search for faces in new images. If I understand it correctly, jpg and raw files are considered separately. I would like to see an option to group newly added images directly by name and then run the face recognition on only one of the images to save some time. I think this is currently only possible if you search for faces directly on a group. </div>
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<div style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">When assigning names to the images or ignoring faces, I noticed that this also took several seconds (->network drive). I would have expected that with a lazy synchronisation of the metadata, there would be no need to retrieve the data from the network drive along with the generated thumbnails, and that the write process could be done later, so that there would be no delays here. I also didn't check any boxes, so I assumed that no metadata would be written back at all.</div>
<div style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>I also noticed that the view sometimes jumped around. After assigning a name with a scrollbar in the middle, I found myself at the very first entry (scrollbar at the top) or sometimes further down. The jump to the top only happened if several names (3/4) could be confirmed before digikam stopped responding due to an internal process (-> network drive loading time). Maybe this could be a small bug. Perhaps it would be possible to outsource the loading and writing processes to an extra process to keep digikam running smoothly.</div>
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<div>As I suggested from sombody else , I would also like to be able to see the history of the last 5 assignments, as this would make it easier to correct mistakes.</div>
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<div>I also have two small wishes:</div>
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<li>My use is irregular and I rarely look at the settings. However, with the help of the manual, I can easily find my way around. To make it even more user friendly, you could add a sample image to the Views setting, for example, where you can see the effect of the ticked boxes directly. This would make it easier to find a suitable setting.</li>
<li>I think this has already been discussed here. However, I would like to reiterate my favour of being able to name the colour labels individually. This is not about transferring them to other programs. It's just that when I've been away from the program for a while, I often can't remember what I've used a particular colour for and have to refer back to my cheat sheet. Sometimes it would be helpful to be able to select multiple colours. What is your workflow with the colour label?</li>
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<div>That was a bit long and hopefully understandable. If I could get some tips from you, I would be very grateful.</div>
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<div style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Best regards,</div>
<div style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thomas</div>
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