[Digikam-users] Import of many photos

[Anders Lund]

Søndag den 30. november 2014 10:42:10 skrev 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.

Running Arch Linux, I am usually up to date.

Kindly,
Anders
> 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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