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

[Stuart T Rogers]

Well it is not working for me. I have started with a new DB this was a 
first time install of digikam on this laptop. The images were already 
all there in the hard drive in existing folders as they used to be 
organised in different software which did not allow for a calendar view. 
The images all now have correct dates as does the database.

The situation is that the images in a calendar view are organised first 
by album with the earliest date, then the images in that album are 
organised by date. This works fine if the albums all do not contain 
images from a mixture of all dates and the album date is selected as 
oldest. However as soon as the albums all contain a mixture of dates the 
calendar view no longer displays all the images in proper chronological 
order by image.

As I said earlier these albums are ordered by image content and as such 
may contain images from various dates. So this design of calendar view 
only works for one set of circumstances.

In my view any calendar view should display every image in the 
collection purely in chronological order irrespective of the album 
containing them.

Stuart

On 26/01/14 09:08, Marie-Noëlle Augendre wrote:
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>
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> 2014-01-26 Stuart T Rogers <stuart at stella-maris.org.uk
> <mailto:stuart at stella-maris.org.uk>>
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>     what I need is a calendar display which simply displays all the
>     photos in date/time order irrespective of which album they are in or
>     the date/time of that album.
>
>     As far as I can tell this is not possible. I'm fairly sure that in
>     the past in earlier versions of digikam this was the way the
>     calendar view worked.
>
>     Stuart
>
> That's how it works - and always have worked - for me (using 3.5.0
> version with SQLite).
> If your pictures don't appear at the right place in the calendar, their
> date are probably wrong in Digikam DB. That's why I advised to:
>   1) check Digikam settings regarding metadata and dates
>   2) modify the pictures that have a wrong date
>   3) then save the modifications to the DB.
>
> If all the metadata are in your picture files, it might be even quicker
> to move the DB file somewhere else, and start with a new database.
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>
> Marie-Noëlle
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