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

[Anders Lund]

Hi Gilles,

På Sat, 15 Jul 2017 15:17:38 +0200
Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> skrev:
> 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.

I'll uncheck it again, and maybe it was a bit silly to test with that
many inmages.

The reason is that I use an external program (darktable) for processing,
and it would be smart if meta data could be shared. For my planned
workflow, in some cases the description would be used for adding a text
to the image using darktables built-in facility for that. I'll find a
workaround for now :)

> 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