Setting metadata for a few images (like 500) freezes digikam.

[Gilles Caulier]

Don't use this option. I plan to remove this. The RAW write support in
Exiv2 still unstable and nothing work on it.

The option is disabled by default. Don't change it.

Gilles Caulier

2017-07-15 15:15 GMT+02:00 Anders Lund <anders at alweb.dk>:
> Hi list,
> In preparation for my next event, I am experimenting with digikam. One
> of my thoughts is to get a description or title into every image, which
> may be a default.
>
> So I tried doing this:
> - Go to an album with about 500 photos.
> - Select all.
> - Put something in the description field of the metadata sidebar.
> - Press Apply.
>
> Now, digikam is mostly frozen, having worked for > 10 minutes. Most of
> the files in the album are raws, but I checked the experimental option
> to write to raw files.
>
> Is this how the state of this is? Because I mostly find this unusable,
> if this is the way it works, I need another tool to do this task :(
> Tricks to make this work better?
>
> Kindly,
> Anders