[Digikam-users] strange behaviour of save and album in digikam 2.5

[Daniel Bauer]

On 27.03.2012 10:55, Andrew Goodbody wrote:
> On 26/03/12 13:19, Daniel Bauer wrote:
>> I cropped many .png-images in an album. When goig to the next image
>> digikam asks what do do and I said "save changes"(not new version!).
>>
>> However digikam saved an _v1.jpg. And does not show the original .png in
>> the album anymore.... Pressing F5 several times did not schange anything.
>>
>> a) how can I make digikam show what is in an album?
>> b) how can I make digikam OVERWRITE an edited image in the same file
>> format as before (here png)and NOT adding a _v1... version?
>
> Settings -> Configure digiKam -> Editing Images
>
> a) Tick 'Always show original images'
> b) Un-tick 'Enable Non-Destructive Editing and Versioning'
>
> I have not actually tried this and am not sure that it will do what you
> want but it is what I would try.
>
> Mind you saving a versioned jpg from an original png sounds like a bug
> in the non-destructive editing code to me.
>
> Andrew
>
(sorry for PM: since Kmail is not usable anymore I changed to 
thunderbird and this entered your privat email when choosing "reply to 
list"...)

thanks Andrew. Meanwhile I found these settings and digikam behaves 
normal again (non-destructive disabled).

What I consider a bug is that I get (non-destructive enabled) 3 options 
("save changes", "Save changes as new version" and "discard changes"), 
but actually I don't see any difference between the first two choices, 
as "save changes" also writes a new file, what I'd only expect with the 
second option...

I think,
- "save changes" should be "overwrite original",
- "Save changes as new version" should do what "save changes" actually does.

Furthermore, after "save changes" the original is not visible anymore in 
the album, only the new "_v1" version... I think, all versions, and 
especially the orginal!, should stay visible. It is very confusing that 
some of the images in a directory are not displayed...

But maybe I just don't understand "versioning" and as long as I can 
deselect it, it's fine with me

kind regards

Daniel


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