[Digikam-users] Difference between collection types

[Marcel Wiesweg]

> Hi Marcel,
>
> I've had a chance to do a little more extensive testing.  Proper
> recognition of images already in the DB is spotty and there is no rhyme or
> reason (that I can see) as to what files are matched and which are not.
>
> Your supposition about inconsistent hashing is interesting.  I set all
> Image's modificationDate to null and reimported the album.  A spot check
> shows that the tags were migrated!!  I'd certainly like to keep my
> modification dates, but if this is the only solution, I suppose I can live
> with it.  Is there any other way to force a re-hash?

No there is not. You dont lose anything, because this is the modification date 
as taken from the file system. It is used to see if a file was changed since 
the last scan and it will be updated again while scanning.
It's not creation or digitization date imported from the exif data.

Marcel