[Digikam-users] NikonPreview?

[sean darcy]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Gilles Caulier<caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/7/16 sean darcy <seandarcy2 at gmail.com>:
>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Gilles Caulier<caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This is not libkexiv2 messages, but Exiv2 library.
>>>
>>> Try with to use last Exiv2 0.18.2... Do not mix old Exiv2 in your
>>> computer, and check which Exiv2 is used in digiKam by Help/components
>>> Info menu.
>>>
>>> Note : updating Exiv2, you need to recompile libkexiv2. if you use
>>> more recent libkexiv2 code, digiKam and co need to be recompiled too.
>>>
>>> Gilles Caulier
>>>
>>> 2009/7/16 Tim Jenness <tim.jenness at gmail.com>:
>>>> Do these errors:
>>>>
>>>> Error: Directory NikonPreview with 2020 entries considered invalid; not
>>>> read.
>>>> Error: Directory NikonPreview with 2020 entries considered invalid; not
>>>> read.
>>>> Error: Directory Panasonic with 3500 entries considered invalid; not
>>>> read.
>>>>
>>>> indicate a problem with my libkexiv2 library? I'm running beta2 but I also
>>>> got them from v0.10.0. I initially thought I had a seriously corrupt hard
>>>> drive but a search indicates that this error message cropped up in March on
>>>> the digikam mailing list. Is there any further comment on the problem? I
>>>> assume it means that the XMP information has not been written correctly. It
>>>> occurred when I tried to sync metadata with database. I had only edited two
>>>> images with v0.10 before upgrading to beta2 so most of the files I have do
>>>> not have XMP information in them, just IPTC keywords written by v0.9.x
>>>>
>>>> Tim
>>>>
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>>
>> So if we build exiv2-0.18.2, we also need to rebuild kdegraphics and
>> digikam afterwards?
>
> Yes.
>
> Anything else?
>
> kipi-plugins. That all..
>
> Gilles
>
>>
>> sean
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OK. Sadly Fedora is still at exiv2-0.18.1. So any updates of
kdegraphics will need to be rebuilt manually, if I'm alert enough to
notice.

sean