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

[Anders Lund]

På Sat, 15 Jul 2017 07:41:22 -0600
Andrey Goreev <aegoreev at gmail.com> skrev:
> digikam and darktable share xmp sidecars pretty good (I have not
> noticed any bugs).

So I could elect to add the data to the xmp file? But for my planned
workflow, I rely on them being in the image, I read (and write) them
with perl Image::ExifTool.

> Also I think the slow process of adding descriptions to images isn't
> related to adding metadata to RAW.

All my RAWs (CR2s) appearently survived the experiment. I'm quite sure
the slowness comes from digikam unnessecarily reloading and rewriting
thumbnails.

> 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
> >
> >