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

[Gilles Caulier]

This option from Exiv2 is not finalized. The Exiv2 treads to support
this feature sound like the option is too dangerous. RAW must still
read only. There is a risk to corrup RAW files. I recommend to not
touch this option.

Gilles Caulier


2017-07-15 15:32 GMT+02:00 Anders Lund <anders at alweb.dk>:
> 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
>