[Digikam-users] Confused about "created" date/time on some photos

[Michael Liddle]

Marcel Wiesweg wrote:
>> Michael Liddle wrote:
>>> Is there anyway that I can fix these dates up?
>> Deleting the entries for the offending files from the Images table
>> forced them to be re-read, correctly. So FWIW my problem is effectively
>> fixed. Still might be something to look into however...
> 
> It's a deliberate decision not to do a full rescan on modification. A full 
> rescan need to be triggered manually. (This may be slightly broken currently)
> You found the "hard" way to force a complete rescan.

OK, as I said in my original post though, I tried "Tools -> Synchonise
all images with database" too, but that did not work either. Is that
what you mean by "may be slightly broken"?

>>> Is it safe to just delete the the rows with album = ""?
>> Seemed to be, I tried it on a copy of my database and have had no
>> troubles (though I've not investigated much).
> 
> They are already in the status "removed". You are free to delete them 
> completely.

So would they have been cleaned up automatically at some stage, had I
not jumped the gun?

Mike.