[Digikam-users] Off-line Collection Browsing & DB cleanup

[Peter Albrecht]

Hello Nick,

maybe this post at "Scribbles and Snaps" may help you clean
up your database (if it is broken again):

> http://scribblesandsnaps.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/check-and-optimize-digikams-databases/

As far as I understood, the fingerprints (referenced by
"rebuild fingerprints") are used for

"Browse" -> "Fuzzy Searches":
 - find similar images
 - find by sketch
 - find duplicates

I have not build fingerprints for all my images and digiKam
always asks me to do so, when I click on "Fuzzy Searches"
(to explore them).

Regards,
	Peter

On 10.05.2012 16:59, Nick Anderson wrote:
> Ive been using digikam for a while now. In general as a
> library management tool it works well for me. There are two
> functions that I don't understand.
> 
> Collections:
> (I recently wiped out my digikam db and started fresh and
> have not re-connected my remote collections yet so perhaps
> this has changed.)
> 
> The notion of remote or removable collections. Both the
> thumbnails and the metadata are stored in the database
> correct? Whenever I launch digikam and my network
> collections are not available I cant use digikam to browse
> the disconnected collections. So in order to find an image I
> have to have that collection connected? Since all the
> information is available shouldn't I be able to search and
> browse the collection, but be given some message about
> attaching the collection before being able to view a full
> size image?
> 
> DB:
> The reason I wiped out my db is because I rename and sort
> images with some custom scripts. At one point some images
> could no longer be found with digikam but they were inside
> the collections, and I did some db spelunking and saw they
> were there too, I also noticed references to files that I
> had moved outside of digikam. How do I "cleanup" that
> database cruft? Is that what "rebuild fingerprints" is for?
> It wasnt clear in the documentation what that function
> actually did.
> 
> I would appreciate any clarification and insight anyone can
> provide.
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