Scan for new items takes ages after syncing collection btw. two computers

Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Tue Jan 31 11:35:18 GMT 2017


On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 11:10:35AM +0100, Remco Viƫtor wrote:
> On mardi 31 janvier 2017 08:41:10 CET Chris Green wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 10:43:49PM -0600, Jim Gomi wrote:
> > > It's much safer to configure digikam to write all tags etc to the image
> > > files, and then just sync the image files. 
> > 
> > Which is what I have been saying should be the default, for years,
> > for this reason among others.
> 
> Any default setting should in principle limit possible harm. Writing just 
> changed metadata to image files _as_a_default_ would go against that. Having 
> it as an option is fine, then it's the user who decides he can accept the 
> associated risks.
> 
I didn't mean just changed metadata, I want *all* metadata *always* in
the files.  It's the only sensible option (for me anyway).

-- 
Chris Green



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