[Digikam-users] Write Metadata takes long time

[Brice Boyer]

2010/2/19 Juergen <jforum at gmx.com>

> Hallo.
>
> I have the problem that it takes a long time for digikam to write
> metadate into files.
>
> Technical details are :
>
> Suse 11.0
>
> AMD : Linux linux-4qg7 2.6.25.20-0.6-default #1 SMP 2010-01-14 18:58:36
> +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> KDE 3.5.9 "release 49.2"
>
> Digikam : V 1.1.0 with KDE Version 4.4.0 release 224
>
> So, back to my problem.
>
> Downloading images from my kardreader takes much longer than it did in
> previous versions. But, I can not tell you exact how long that is.
>
> But, what makes the current version useless for me is that it takes so
> long to write tags into my image files.
>
> It almost an hour to write just one Tag : Special->Original to 111 images.
>
> The images are JPG images taken with my "Nikon D90" and they are about 3
> - 6 MB big.
>
> For 12 Images to get one new tag added it took 3,44 minutes.
>
> My settings regarding metadata are :
>
> Rotate preview images according exif information
> Set exif information to normal after rotation
> Save image tags as "Keywords" tags embedded in metadata in files
> Save image captions in metadata in files
> Save image timestamp in metadata in files.
>
> --
> Greetings
>
> Jürgen Flosbach
>
> e-mail : jforum at gmx.com
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Hello.

I got the same "problem" (with my nikon files). That's exiv 0.19 fault. just
go back to 0.18. (see #224094)
hope it helps.

-- 
                                                     Brice
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