[Digikam-users] Big problems with medium to large sized collections under Microsoft Windows

[Laurent Espitallier]

Hi,

with digikam 2.9.0 on Microsoft Windows 7 pro 64 bits and XP 32 bits I
have big problems with a medium sized pictures collection (about 22000
pictures, 700 albums, with CR2 and JPG files). When I first start
digiKam, I give it the root of the collection, it then scans the content
for the first time and fills the database (SQLite). But once started,
digiKam displays nothing, whatever the album I select (yet everything is
OK in the database : the photos have a status of 1, the albums are
there, the pictures are well related to an album, etc.).If I try to
leave digiKam, I see that it stays in memory (probably a crashbecause
dont seem to do anything). If I kill all processes (digiKam and KDE) and
then restart digiKam, at worst digiKam crashes at best it shows nothing
like the first time. If I close again all processes andthat I move admit
half the collection apart from the root and I start digiKamagain, it
displays all the images well and naturally creates thumbnails in the
second file database ... (except for the files I moved outside the root
of the collection of course). I also tried with another collection of
pictures and had the same results...

If a bug, it is really a critical one to me...

Laurent.