[Digikam-users] Downloading JPEG is amazingly slow

[Remco Viëtor]

On Thursday 18 March 2010 08:12:33 Gabriel Kerneis wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 10:13:44AM +0100, Gabriel Kerneis wrote:
> > I shoot in RAW+JPEG and observe that downloading my RAW files (which are
> > bigger) is very fast, whereas Digikam seems to stall on every JPEG file,
> > performing whatever operation which makes it much slower. 
> > [...]
> Is there at least someone here facing the same behaviour, or is this
> something specific to my config?  Could this be related with the fact
> that I asked digikam to record its metadata in JPEG files, but not in
> RAW files (because of the "experimental" status)?
> 
> Regards,

Well, I use the same options wrt. metadata, and for me, the raw files are 
slower to transfer than jpg (and 3x as big at least, from sony A330). 

On the other hand, when transferring photos _into_ digikam, are the files 
modified by digikam (i.e. is digikam recording any metadata during the 
transfer)? I always thought that option about writing metadata to raw files 
concerned tags, captions etc. added later on in digikam.

Regards, 

Remco