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

[Andrey Goreev]

digikam and darktable share xmp sidecars pretty good (I have not noticed
any bugs).

Also I think the slow process of adding descriptions to images isn't
related to adding metadata to RAW.
I have experienced same behavior with JPEGs.
Maybe my machine is slower than what an average user have nowadays... (Core
i5-2520M 2.50GHz with 8Gb RAM
Or maybe my HDD is slow or something else... (2.5" 7200 RPM over SATA 3.0
Gb/s bus)

Best regards,

On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 7:32 AM, Anders Lund <anders at alweb.dk> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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