[Digikam-users] What triggers digiKam to rebuild all the thumbnails?

Elle Stone l.elle.stone at gmail.com
Thu Oct 25 13:26:25 BST 2012


So is a change of the file size what digiKam actually uses to decide
that an image file has changed? Does it check anything else?

On 10/24/12, Marcel Wiesweg <marcel.wiesweg at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> When opening digiKam, what triggers digiKam to rebuild all the
>> thumbnails (a very slow process on my old computer)? I thought it was
>> if the filemodify date/time had changed. But I guess I was wrong.
>
> A change of the file size is an even more reliable indicator that the file
> changed than the modification date...
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