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

[Martin Senftleben]

Hi Vlado,

thanks for your efforts and suggestion!
I'll give it a try, but before that I would like to make sure 
everything is done right. Please check my questions and comments 
below.

Am Freitag 01 Januar 2010 schrieb Vlado Plaga:
> Am Fri, 1 Jan 2010 15:29:10 +0100
> 
> 2. If you hadn't selected "safe metadata to pictures" previously,

I looked for that option and didn't find it. Where is it?

>    do so now, then go to "tools" / "Write Metadata to images"
>  ("Extras/ Metadaten in alle Bilder schreiben" in German). 

Ouch, that will take long. I have about 50.000 images in the various 
folders.

>  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.

ok, I'll check that.

> > 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)?

Of course, it's ext3. As much as I can I avoid windows stuff.

> Happy New Year and good luck with digiKam!

Thank you, same to you! I liked that software and am a bit puzzled 
about these to me new problems.

Martin

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