DK 5.6.0: CLI command to import metadata

cool.chris65 at web.de cool.chris65 at web.de
Fri Jul 14 19:16:55 BST 2017


Hi,

dosn't matter - so at least I do it in the gui just if I see that the datas 
are incomplete ;-)

And at least I will say this: it's a very great piece of software! I love it 
and I use it regularly - i think starting with 0.9.5 or so ;-)

Thx

Am Donnerstag, 13. Juli 2017, 09:22:21 CEST schrieb Gilles Caulier:
> Hi,
> 
> This kind of solution do not exist yet, even if :
> 
> 1. I understand well the problem as i use also a NAS;
> 2. Mostly operations done by the scan collection process run in a
> separated thread without nothing to do in GUI excepted a progress bar.
> 
> So typically it's technically possible but this need to touch a lots
> of code to achieve this king of feature.
> 
> Sorry, you will need to run the GUI for the moment.
> 
> Best
> 
> Gilles Caulier
> 
> 2017-07-13 9:15 GMT+02:00  <cool.chris65 at web.de>:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm using DK to manage my pics over many years od DK-Versions ... actually
> > I need to import the metadata like tags, comments,... from the pics into
> > the database because the old db was lost...
> > 
> > It's no problem to import them withe gui, but it needs very long time, and
> > I'm using a debian8-based NAS (OMV) and a sql-server on it (mariadb) to
> > store the pics and all informations about them.
> > 
> > I would prefer a commandline solution to restore all metadatas into the
> > database because then it could run onto the NAS without any second PC to
> > run the whole dk, but I can't find anything about such a possibility to
> > do it with a cli
> > 
> > Greetz, Christoph





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