[Digikam-users] Problem with Digikam on MacOSX - Too many open files...

[G]

Le 14/02/2012 21:48, brad a écrit :
> On Tuesday, February 14, 2012 08:25:12 PM G wrote:
>> Le 14/02/12 17:23, Gilles Caulier a écrit :
>>> report this problem to KDE bugzilla please...
>>>
>>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289330
>>>
>>> It's definitily a Qt library bug...
>>>
>>> Gilles Caulier
>> OK.
>>
>> To "survive" until the bug was solved, do you think a workaround in
>> Digikam code like /if OS==MacOS then disable "open file checking" /would
>> be possible ? Or it is a too big modif ?
>>
> See comment 7 on the above bug report that Gilles sent you. The patch in the
> comment does exactly that, it's pretty simple. If you have digikam's git repo
> cloned, then simply. Download the patch
>   $ cd digikam-sc/core
>   $ git am 0001-disable-filewatching-on-OS-X-but-dir-watching-still-.patch
>
>
> If you're just using the source tar file, then you might have to do
>   $ cd digikam/core
>   $ patch -p1<  0001-disable-filewatching-on-OS-X-but-dir-watching-still-.patch
>
> now compile.
>
> Caution: i don't have my mac in front of me, these commands above may not be
> exact.
>
> - brad
YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It finally works ! Your 5 lines patch has the extraordinary power to 
make digikam 2.6 on MacOSLion at last OK, with my 11 years of 
photography correctly handled, the thousands of tags (from numerous old 
install of Digikam (FreeBSD, Linux, Windows) since 6 years) up and 
running and my digikam4.db of >40Mb recognized...

The end of a long long effort...

Thank you, thank all the digikam people... Version 2.6 is great.

@Brad : Curiosity : Do you know whait is exactly the impact of disabling 
file-watching for digikam on MacOS ?