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

[Gilles Caulier]

Gerard,

Please report your feedback under mac to bugzilla report please...

Gilles Caulier

2012/2/16 G <g.is at free.fr>:
> 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 ?
>
>
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