[Digikam-users] Digikam not recognising already downloaded photos

Sun Jul 29 09:45:20 BST 2012

2012/7/29 Stuart T Rogers <stuart at stella-maris.org.uk>

> In my view even if it uses file name and device downloaded from there is
> still no reason why this should not work.
>
> I am still hoping someone who knows the internals can explain how this
> works and whether this function is performed by digikam itself or relies on
> some other code to detect this, that way I'll know where to open a bug
> report.
>

I just searched the bug reports and found two:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285683
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281758

>
> I will try and see if digikam remembers by creating a new photo and
> download it via the card reader, and then see if it comes up as new or not
> on a second try.
>
> I seem to remember that digikam gets it correct if you dont restart it
> between attempts but again I'll have to test that.
>
> This problem is such a pain to me as my wife does not like to clear photos
> off her memory cards unless it gets full so I have to make sure I know what
> has been downloaded already (or sit here skipping photos manually and when
> you have 400+ its a pain).
>

That's one of the reaisons (there are others) I import every time I'm back
home from shooting, whether it's from a couple hours outing or a several
days trip; it's easier to remember what pictures you've just taken. Of
course, it's only a rather poor alternative 'solution'.

Marie-Noëlle

>
> Stuart
>
>
> On 07/29/2012 08:32 AM, Anders Stedtlund wrote:
>
>> There is probably a table having a relation between downloaded images
>> and the device they were downloaded from. I have had problems with
>> digikam not remember images downloaded from my Canon EOS 50d.
>>
>> Now I use a external card reader and don't have the problem any
>> longer. I use digiKam 2.7.0 at the moment.
>>
>> /Anders
>>
>> 2012/7/28 Stuart T Rogers <stuart at stella-maris.org.uk>:
>>
>>> 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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