[digiKam-users] digikam git version , strange 'Tags' tag

[leoutation at gmx.fr]

On 2/8/19 3:10 PM, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 
> 
> Le ven. 8 févr. 2019 à 14:00, <leoutation at gmx.fr 
> <mailto:leoutation at gmx.fr>> a écrit :
> 
>     On 2/7/19 10:37 PM, leoutation at gmx.fr <mailto:leoutation at gmx.fr> wrote:
>      > I don't know if it's safely possible to edit metadata in mariadb
>      > database  with a tool. Then, with Digikam, i could update from
>     database
>      > to .xmp images metadata.
>     I find digikam solution to update .xmp: sync from database to metadata.
>     After that, I launched "scan for new item", it took about 30 minutes
>     then displayed "no active" process. This message is wrong because
>     digikam processes were active in the background (hard drive an cpu)
>     during more than an hour an half after the "official" end.
> 
> 
> yes, the bug is know...
> 
> And in fact it's not a bug. Few year ago, Marcel has implemented this 
> feature, to scan collection in background. It's done in too stages :
> 
> 1/ scan albums without contents and register new entries in DB. This is 
> done with progress manager.
> 2/ scan one by one all albums and register contents  in DB. This is done 
> in low level background.
> 
> Gilles Caulier
The problem is that the low level background nearly freezes computer.
In another hand, the background progresses is very quick after the first 
scan...

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Maderios