[digiKam-users] Am I doing the something wrong?

[Maik Qualmann]

Ok, I suspect the cause, we store ItemInfos in lazy synchronization. However, 
the files have now been moved. All we have to do is save the item ids and 
retrieve the information from DB again.

Maik

Am Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2018, 18:06:04 CET schrieb digikam at 911networks.com:
> Finally, I have tracked it down.
> 
> It's DK and the settings:
> 
> DK: setting: lazy synchronization: ON
> 
> The XMP is written to disk when I exit DK. DK doesn't track the file
> synchronization to the new album. It still writes it to the original
> directory.
> 
> To file a bug: which section to do it under?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Syv
> 
> On Mon, 03 Dec 2018 23:16:37 +0100
> 
> Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Can not reproduce the problem here with the Linux and Windows
> > version. Of course, sidecars are always copied or moved. New
> > sidecars are created only when metadata changes. Look in the output
> > of the console, it is determined whether a sidecar was found when
> > copying / moving:
> > 
> > digikam.database: Detected a sidecar QUrl("file...
> > 
> > Maik
> > 
> > Am Montag, 3. Dezember 2018, 21:39:10 CET schrieb
> > 
> > digikam at 911networks.com:
> > > DK6b3 - 2-Dec-2018
> > > 
> > > My workflow is:
> > > 
> > > 1. I copy the images to an album called: "raws"
> > > 2. Open DK > albums > raws
> > > 3. I rename the files from dscf1234.raf to
> > > dogs-vancouver-20181130-1234.raf
> > > 
> > > No problem so far
> > > 
> > > 4. Move to the "proper album"
> > > 
> > > DK moves them to the proper album but DK forgets to also move the
> > > XMP files DK has created. They are left "hanging" in the raws
> > > folder.
> > > 
> > > https://i.imgur.com/yMQcuxh.png
> > > 
> > > Is this a DK problem or is there some setting that I don't know or
> > > I have missed?
> > > 
> > > BTW, DK doesn't create new XMPs when it moves the images to the
> > > other album
> > > 
> > > https://i.imgur.com/wUEAjWC.png