[Digikam-users] digikam - can't rotate thumbnails in albums !

[Neill Lillywhite]

Hi

I use digikam 0.9.3 in KDE  3.5.10

My photos are mounted in /etc/fstab

//server/photos /home/me/photos

the permissions are all OK - all folders and photos are owned by me and 
i have full rights to them all

there is a symlink correctly set up so the db is stored locally even 
though the pictures are mounted through samba


the problem comes in the albums

when i view the photos in konqueror they are all orientated correctly

in the album view in digikam some are orientated correctly, some are not 
(being rotated through 90 one way or the other)

further, when i try to rotate them correctly in digikam some /will 
/rotate, some /won/'t !!! - i can't find any apparent reason why this 
happens

it doesn't matter whetehr i do this manually or using the EXIF 
autorotate feature


2 questions really then:

1
why should the album view apparently randomly rotate pictures differntly 
to the view in konqueror ?

2
why can i rotate some but not others ?

FWIW i installed f-spot (yukk !!!) and i could rotate them in there, but 
it's soooooo slow and ugly i dumped it PDQ  :-)

any and all help very gratefully received

ta

/neill