[Digikam-users] Created/modified date & Digikam start problems

[Risto Saukonpää]

Hi! I have two subjects, other is already asked and still a "unsolved" 
problem.

1.
Is there coming any change to photo "created/modified : dd.mm.yyyy hh:mm" 
information how it is shown?
I always use a 128 size preview and i just noticed that if i change preview to 
smaller, i just see "created/modified" text and not information. So mayby 
there should be somekind change how to show that information, like just 
like "c : dd.mm.yyyy hh:mm" and "m : dd.mm.yyyy hh:mm". So user would know 
that m = modified and c = created information and those informations would be 
seen with smaller preview.
Im planning to add wish report about this but i would like to know is there 
something what i'm doing wrong in this case?

2.
My old problem to start a digikam has got new "turn".
My problem was that almost everytime i started digikam, it didn't start (99% 
of case), and it stopped in a "Reading database" part (My pictures are on USB 
harddrive). When i run digikam from console, it didn't give any error message 
but just printed as last info that what version of dcraw i was using. 

And when i compiled svn version with debug information, problem didn't ever 
come up and digikam always started as it should!
I have tryed a mandriva official, backported and cooker versions and always 
same problem was happening. And it was happening with Kubuntu and OpenSUSE 
distributions too with same PC.

Now i have new information about this and i dont know how to use it 
as "advance" to solve this problem. I installed PCLinuxOS to my laptop and i 
noticed that digikam starts now with 95% change. But when i move drive (USB 
cable) back to Mandriva 2008, digikam still halts to that "reading database" 
positon. 

I have even made fresh database and added all albums one by one to new 
database (by menu option "add folder") and between albums, i restarted 
digikam until it didn't start and then moved those albums away to find 
problematic albums, this didnt' solve anything :-(. 
Example, Digikam didn't start anymore with album no.356 and then i moved 
no.356, and digikam didnt' start, so i moved 355 away and then it started 
again. Then i added albums back one by one, and it migh halt again with 
no.420 album but not with no.356 when it didn't start anymore last time.
And if just had only those albums what didn't allow digikam to start in my 
database, there was no problem and digikam started :-/
So problem didn't exist on spesific file :-/

So now i need to ask, what can make so big difference in this case when i try 
with same digikam version but  different distribution, PCLinuxOS vs 
Mandriva/OpenSUSE/Kubuntu?

If i plug USB-HD to:
Mandriva, digikam dont start but halts to "reading database".
Kubuntu, digikam dont start but halts to "reading database".
OpenSUSE, digikam dont start but halts to "reading database".
PCLinuxOS, digikam starts and only sometimes halts to "reading database".

User names (and UID/GID) are same on all distributions and all 
files/directories on my USBHD has correctly set permissions.

So in this time, i'm "stuck" to PCLinuxOS if i want to use digikam to organize 
my photographs but i would like to have option to do this with mandriva PC 
too (powerfull and bigger monitor). So i need to use a "--debug" version from 
Digikam to get it work with Mandriva. So question is what problems i might 
have with it, like does it write anything special to digikam3.db or picture 
metadata, so is it safe to use it?