[Digikam-users] images created through open-with dialog do not shine up in current session

Julien Narboux Julien at narboux.fr
Thu Jan 24 07:22:47 GMT 2008


Gilles Caulier a écrit :
>
>
> 2008/1/23, Marcel Wiesweg <marcel.wiesweg at gmx.de 
> <mailto:marcel.wiesweg at gmx.de>>:
>
>     Am Mittwoch 23 Januar 2008 schrieben Sie:
>     > Marcus,
>     >
>     > Your problem sound like similar than mine or Caspar.
>     >
>     > A new image add to collection is generally always detected by
>     digiKam.
>     >
>     > Only few time, (around 10%), new items are not detected properlly.
>     >
>     > I have seen this problem to enable counts of items in folder
>     view and to
>     > work on editor on my RAW files.
>     > I use 2 flat screens at home, in xinerama mode. first screen in
>     album gui,
>     > second is Editor or LitghtTable (i missing a 3nd screen for that
>     (:=)))
>     >
>     > When i save from editor a raw file to PNG, i can see imediatly
>     if new items
>     > created are count in folder view from album gui.
>     >
>     > I can see the same problem when items are moved frrom a physical
>     album to a
>     > new one. in rare cases, counts of items are wrong. restarting
>     digiKam fix
>     > the problem.
>     >
>     > The main problem is than digiKam do not detect sometimes the new
>     files on
>     > HDD and do not start a scan to import items in Database. My first
>     > impression is a problem in KDirWatch witch do the detection job
>     (using FAM
>     > service)
>     >
>     > A second way is a race condition somewhere, perhaps in DIO class
>     witch
>     > process copy/move/scan of files in background and are invocated by
>     > KDirWatch.
>     >
>     > I'm waiting than Marcel try to reproduce the problem to be sure.
>     >
>     > My config is given below :
>     >
>     > Mandriva 2008.0 - PIV 3.4Ghz HT - 2 Gb RAM - SATA HDD 350 GB -
>     KDE 3.5.8
>
I have sometimes exactly the same problem, Digikam does not see new 
pictures.
I am runing : Digikam 0.9.3 kde 3.5.7 on mandriva 2008.0. Next time it 
occurs I will try to tell you exactly what I was doing.

Julien



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