[Digikam-users] Import of many photos

[Gilles Caulier]

Import don't know face management.

Problem are related to Sqlite lock and crash. There are a lots of reports
in bugzilla. Solutions : update libsqlite AND QtSql plugin to don't see
this dysfunction.

Gilles Caulier

2014-11-30 10:13 GMT+01:00 Marie-Noëlle Augendre <mnaugendre at gmail.com>:

> Same problem here, as I'm used to tag photo by dozens. Digikam is still
> working in the background when I tag the next few ones, then others ... I
> sometimes had to wait for about 2 hours till it finished! In the past, I
> even thought it was completely frozen, as the progress bars in the low
> right corner doesn't seem to move; in fact, it says the same thing for
> everey picture, so one cannot see if it is actually working or completely
> stuck.
>
> I don't use face detection, rotating has already been done before. So I'm
> only tagging, writing description and such on pictures that have been
> imported and edited a while ago.
>
> Marie-Noëlle
>
> 2014-11-30 1:32 GMT+01:00 Anders Lund <anders at alweb.dk>:
>
>> Søndag den 30. november 2014 01:16:06 skrev Boudewijn:
>> > On Friday 28 November 2014 22:53:42 Anders Lund wrote:
>> > > Fredag den 28. november 2014 22:18:52 skrev Anders Lund:
>> > > > Today i try to import directries of 1000 cr2 files one at a time.
>> > > > Digikam
>> > > > imported the 1000 photos, and then froze. Ḯ'm waiting in the hope
>> that
>> > > > sometime it will be done, but I have MANY directories of 1000
>> photos to
>> > > > import. Feels buggy.
>> > >
>> > > After several minutes (more than 15) digikam unfroze again. Whatever
>> it
>> > > does in that time, freezing the ui is not smart.
>> > >
>> > > 1000 photos is not that much!
>> >
>> > I have no answer/solution, but perhaps it helps. My PC becomes very busy
>> > when dropping many photos in Digikam or updating tags (I write the tags
>> to
>> > the image file, not database only, so date modified changes). In my
>> case it
>> > is minidlna, that scans the directories on change and imports the images
>> > (or reimports, in case of tags updated). It makes DK close to freezing
>> as
>> > well. I always thought minidlna to be the culprit; if I disable it for a
>> > while DK will freeze for a shorter while.
>> >
>> > Could there be a backgroundprocess in your case that gives your system a
>> > hard time while importing photos?
>>
>> I thought about the face detection or something like that could slow
>> things
>> down. There appears to be quite a lot of things going on that freezes the
>> gui
>> even after the notification that the import is done.
>>
>> Digikam says just autorotating, but in my case few images actually need
>> to be
>> rotated, even if they are all tested.
>>
>> Nothing special should be happening. During most of the time after the
>> images
>> are imported, the KDE process table shows digikam using 2-3%CPU. During
>> the
>> import 25% - using one core, I guess.
>>
>> Kindly,
>> Anders
>>
>> > Best regards,
>> >
>> > Boudewijn
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