[Digikam-users] Digikam not recognising already downloaded photos

[Peter Albrecht]

Hi Stuart,

this bug happens to me too, every now and than. But I had no
time to investigate this jet.

What I would do to debug:
I would try to find out, where digikams stores information
about pictures beeing old/new. Than I would look where
writing or reading this information fails.

But since I am only a digikam user - no developer - I do not
exactly know, where to look for. But I would first try the
digikam SQLite Database. ;)

Regards,
	Peter

On 28.07.2012 16:15, Stuart T Rogers wrote:
> Following my rant the other day I have done some testing
> using both the camera and the USB card reader. I am running
> digikam 2.7.0 with gphoto2 at 2.4.14.
> 
> All the photos on the camera were downloaded a few days ago
> so there are no new ones to download. All photos are visible
> in the correct folder in digikam.
> 
> My Canon SX10IS is detected OK but all photos on the card
> are displayed as new whether I use the auto-detected option
> or the one I had pre-defined.
> 
> So next I added my USB card reader and put the card directly
> into it, again all the displayed photos on the card come up
> as new.
> 
> At no time have I been able to get this working now for
> absolutely ages.
> 
> Can anyone suggest where to go from here please? I am
> willing to try and debug this but have no idea where to start.
> 
> Stuart
> 
> On 07/23/2012 09:26 PM, Stuart T Rogers wrote:
>> I am now running 2.7 and still digikam will not recognise
>> that several
>> of the photos on my Canon SX10IS camera are not new.
>>
>> I simply do not understand why this is so hard to get to
>> work properly,
>> it used to work OK on 1.9 properly. The photos filenames
>> are still the
>> same for those already downloaded, and the meta data is
>> there. This
>> should not be rocket science, everything in the database
>> is there to
>> recognise that some of these images have already been
>> downloaded so why
>> on earth can digikam get it so wrong? Sorry but I cannot
>> see any excuse
>> not to fix this....
>>
>> Sorry for the rant but this is becoming a real nuisance
>> and annoyance
>> especially as it is a problem which used not to exist!
>>
>> Stuart
>