[Digikam-users] Temporarily override the 'write to file' metadata setting

[Marie-Noëlle Augendre]

2014-01-31 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:

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> 2014-01-31 Marie-Noëlle Augendre <mnaugendre at gmail.com>
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> Due to many Digikam freezes when using the batch tool manager, I've been
>> obliged to deactivate the 'write to file' metadata setting.
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> However, when I want to write metadata to a couple of images - using the
>> Images -> Write metadata to image menu, there is no option to override the
>> general setting. So I need to modify the setting first, then do the rewrite
>> metadata for pictures I want to publish, then go back to deactivate the
>> setting again.
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>> Could you provide some easier option? Having different settings for batch
>> tool manager and image menu, for example? Or giving the ability to override
>> temporarily the setting when using the Image menu?
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>> Thanks for considering this modification.
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> The right question is why it freeze on your computer.
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We had this discussion a while ago, I think. ;-)
At that time, you seemed to think that the culprits were my USB external
drives.


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> Did you tried to turn off multi-core cpu support in BQM queue settings and
> see if it's better ?
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It's unchecked.


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> Did you run digiKam in GDB and get a suitable backtrace when it freeze.
> It's possible that a crash appear in Exiv2 shared lib, and not digiKam as
> well. In this case the way to use Images -> Write metadata to image will
> give the same king of freeze..
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What is GDB by the way?
For me, the difference seems to be the number of pictures that have to be
rewritten: if they are only a couple, it works OK; but when I use the batch
tool manager - or tag many images at a time - Digikam gets stucked.


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2014-01-31 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:

> Other questions :
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> - What's your metadata settings exactly ? Perhaps it's a specific
> option which freeze metadata writting process.
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It's either Write to XMP sidecar only, when I want to avoid freezing
problems; or Write to Image and sidecar, when I need to apply EXIF/IPTC to
images.


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> - Which type of images did you manage like this ? Raw or JPEG or both
> or another one as PNG or TIFF ?
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99% of the time, it is TIFF that I need to resize/convert/sharpen in order
to produce JPEG for publishing.


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> - Can you look about memory allocation in your computer to see if all
> is not filled. I fixed several memory issue in mantenance tool (which
> share some code with BQM). This can be the problem.
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Humm... I have no idea how to do that. Can you give me a hint?

Thanks,
Marie-Noëlle





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