[Digikam-devel] [digikam] [Bug 338533] Sort by date should use picture created date not modified date

[Nicolas Pomarede]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338533

--- Comment #4 from Nicolas Pomarede <npomarede at corp.free.fr> ---
Hello

I was about to send some photos, but then I tried first "album / read again
metadata from the images", and this fixed the problem, photos are now sorted in
their correct order.
So it seems the problem is not that digikam doesn't use the correct exif tag
but that album's order is not refreshed when some new images are added to an
album while digikam is already running.

If I recall correctly, I had an album with some images in dir "album_2014/",
taken with the same camera. Then, I copied some photos from another camera in
this same directory, using "cp" from a shell. Those new photos took the
date/time when "cp" was made. Then I ran "exiv2 -T mv *jpg" to update the
file's date of all the photos (based on the creation date).
And I think this is where digikam didn't update the sorting order.

Does digikam support when images are changed by another program while the album
is shown in digikam ? I thought inodes were monitored and digikam would rescan
automatically the album, as if the image was not changed but completely added ?
Or is this something that should be run manually with "read again metadata from
the images" ?

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