[Digikam-users] Arrange photos in calendar mode by create date

[Stuart T Rogers]

OK so doing as Marie-Noelle suggests corrects the image dates.

However (unless I have missed a setting somewhere) the calendar display 
is still wrong when under some circumstances. Allow me to explain... I 
have a Folder (Album to digikam) the date of which is 28/08/2013 but it 
contains photos which are as early as 01/01/2013 and as late as 
26/08/2013, this folder is displayed later in the year display than 
folders of an earlier date containing photos from February 2013.

It seems to me that there is an assumption that the folder date will be 
at least as early as the first photo contained therein. This maybe true 
if a collection is generated by importing photos into digikam but not 
always as the photos themselves maybe old. Also almost certainly not the 
case where an existing set of photos which were managed outside of 
digikam exist and digikam is merely pointed at a set of pre-existing 
folders.

To my mind the calendar display should always display the photos from 
every album in date order irrespective of the album date. If the album 
needs to be identified it should be done by an option when right 
clicking on or hovering over the image. At the very least this method 
should be an option when using the calendar display.

Stuart

On 25/01/14 20:16, Stuart T Rogers wrote:
> Marie-Noelle I will try that and see if it fixes the problem.
>
> Stuart
>
> On 25/01/14 17:56, Marie-Noëlle Augendre wrote:
>> I don't know what your Digikam settings are.
>> You can also try Tools -> Maintenance -> Sync Metadata and Database.
>>
>> Marie-Noëlle
>>
>>
>> 2014-01-25 Stuart T Rogers <stuart at stella-maris.org.uk
>> <mailto:stuart at stella-maris.org.uk>>
>>
>>     Marie-Noelle thanks for the advice.....
>>
>>     Well I'm having to do that for a huge number of photos. Considering
>>     this is a new digikam install and a first time adding the photos to
>>     a new database I am puzzled as to why it has not loaded them
>>     correctly first time. This was a new install on a new hard drive of
>>     Fedora 20 64bit with digikam 3.5.0.
>>
>>     Stuart
>>
>>
>>
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