[Digikam-devel] unresponsive while scanning for new items

[Simon Frei]

Hi
I do not have enough detailed information to file a bug and something 
similar might already be reported. Still I wanted to inform you about 
it. Maybe it helps in some way.
I just made changes to a big set of images (350G) outside of digikam 
(metadata writing with exiftool). So it took quite some time searching 
for new items after startup (notification on the bottom left), but never 
used cpu or ram very hard. After some time however digikam became 
unresponsive, just a grey frame. The commandline did show that it was 
still working in the background, the following was displayed repeatedly:
digikam.dimg: "*somefile*"  : JPEG file identified
digikam.metaengine: Orientation => Exif.Image.Orientation => 1
So digikam was still functioning, just not the gui and still digikam did 
load the computer, but not overload. After a certain time digikam 
resurfaced and worked fine.
Cheers,
Simon