[Digikam-users] digkam albums don't update on the fly

[Vlado Plaga]

Am Fri, 1 Jan 2010 15:29:10 +0100
schrieb Martin Senftleben <DrMartinus at drmartinus.de>:
> I'm sure it's related 
> to the database (handling), but have no clue what could be wrong.

Dear Martin,

it sounds like you are still struggling with some digiKam issues, which
might be related to a somehow corrupted database. I recommend the
following:

1. Make sure you have a good backup of your pictures and the related
   digikam files (database and configuration).

2. If you hadn't selected "safe metadata to pictures" previously,
   do so now, then go to "tools" / "Write Metadata to images" ("Extras/
   Metadaten in alle Bilder schreiben" in German). I think I found a
   bug in that function: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220202
   So you might have to locate directories with more than 200 pictures
   ("find . -type d -exec ls -ld \{} \;", look at the number after
   owner and group) and update their metadata individually.

3. Take a new Linux test user, or directly move your old configuration
   (~/.kde/share/config/digikamrc) and database (either in your
   pictures directory, or it does not matter) out of the way (without
   deleting them), and have digiKam create a new configuration for the
   pictures.

I had my database recreated this way, but first lost some ratings, as
you can read in the aforementioned bug report. If that is still
possible with your current configuration, you can determine how many
pictures with ratings you've got (I do that by going to the basedir,
activating the display of pictures in subdirectories, and using a star
rating filter of "greater/equal 1", which works because I don't tag "0
star pictures") BEFORE rebuilding the database, and compare that number
to the number you get after the database rebuild. I've got 2237 rated
pictures out of 12890 pictures total, and digiKam is pretty quick, even
though this is an old computer (2003 model, 1 GHz).

> F5 won't change anything, and it takes very long on a folder with
> 9000 images,

Looking at those numbers, though... I don't know. Do you use a proper
Linux file system (not fat32 or NTFS)?

Happy New Year and good luck with digiKam!

Vlado