[Digikam-devel] [Bug 220545] Cannot write XMP sidecar files

[Vlado Plaga]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220545


Vlado Plaga <rechner at vlado-do.de> changed:

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--- Comment #72 from Vlado Plaga <rechner vlado-do de>  2011-08-08 17:01:17 ---
(In reply to comment #68)
> For each file we'd need to check if a sidecar is available, and this can take
> a long time when many files are moved.

Is such a check really so slow? DigiKam is not quite as fast as e.g. Dolphin
(not to speak of using the command line) in moving files anyway.

I just made a quick check, trying to move 292 non-existing xmp 'files' (from a
directory with 292 jpg files) to "/tmp". It takes eleven seconds on my system,
which is a little outdated already (a 1.3 GHz PPC from 2005, but with not such
an old HDD).

Maybe there could be a database attribute like "has sidecar file" for each
image, which could be checked much faster?

With digiKam's current behaviour of neither displaying, nor automatically
moving sidecar files, this new feature is not very usable yet, in my opinion. I
often first go through new images applying tags and ratings, and only then move
them to different albums/ directories.

But XMP sidecar files would be excellent for my incremental backup system
(instead of having only the complete database, or multiple copies of images
modified from tagging).

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