[Digikam-devel] digikam db update

Gilles Caulier caulier.gilles at free.fr
Wed Oct 5 06:19:53 BST 2005


Le Mercredi 05 Octobre 2005 04:52 AM, Vardhman Jain a écrit :
> > you didn't answer my question :). digikam is supposed to automatically
> > pick up new files and folders when it is running.
> >
> > renchi
>
> Sharing my experience in this regard, I was copying files through
> konqueror in Digikam Photo Directory with digikam open, It was nice to
> see the photos being automatically added to Digikam, suddenly I
> deleted one of the folder that was partially copied ( I realized that
> the folder was not of use) and I think digikam got confused...
> At that time my computer frooze, which I guess was because of an
> endless while loop waiting for the folder to get copied or something.
>
> Also OT but a similar freeze was seen by me when while importing
> photos from my Camera Digikam froze. I later realized that the camera
> just didn't have enough battery and was turning off automatically.
> Probably digikam was waiting for the photos to come and they were not
> coming ,Could this lead to some endless waiting loop eating up all my
> CPU?
>
>
> Vardhman
> PS: Creating similar situation might be more difficult than checking
> if the code lacks a 'read timeout' case in both the situations.

For these 2 points, i recommend you to make files in B.K.O. Remember that all 
messages on ML will be "lost" if developpers don't use it in a near time (2 
weeks max. for me). B.K.O is the best way to save properly all report from 
users.

Gilles



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