[Digikam-users] Digikam not recognising already downloaded photos

[Stuart T Rogers]

I can see all the photos correctly listed in the sqlite database so I 
dont know what else to look for.

Stuart

On 07/28/2012 09:10 PM, Peter Albrecht wrote:
> 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
>>
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