[digiKam-users] Fwd: Using the Image Quality Sorter

[Maik Qualmann]

If you want to select children's albums too, they must also be marked. Use the 
right context menu. What sometimes leads to a problem is the selection of 
tags.Check if they have not selected tags.

Maik

Am Montag, 10. Juni 2019, 23:35:27 CEST schrieb James Orr:
> Well, it seems I was too much in a hurry, and that I misunderstood
> something in the Tools|Maintenance dialogue box.
> 
> I thought when I was in the Process items from: part of the page, I
> could select one folder and have DK act only on it (and maybe its children).
> I thought this because I had cleared the box for whole albums collection.
> 
> I just started to browse my collection and it appears that almost all of
> the images in my Pictures folder have been examined. Although I have not
> inventoried each folder, I did find 3-4 where the CR2 files had not been
> marked, though the images in the child folders had been marked.
> 
> This does seem odd.
> 
> Is this worth Bugzilla?
> 
> James M. Orr 2705 E Sussex Way Fresno, CA 93726
> 
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: 	Using the Image Quality Sorter
> Date: 	Mon, 10 Jun 2019 13:40:47 -0700
> From: 	James Orr <jorr1948 at earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: 	jorr1948 at earthlink.net
> To: 	digikam-users-group--kde.org <digikam-users at kde.org>
> 
> 
> 
> It seems odd to me that the image quality marking feature is located
> under Maintenance--seems odd to me. Anyway ...
> 
> I wanted to be sure that I understand this feature, so I went to the
> Tools|Maintenance window and cleared all the selections except for using
> multiple cores and using the Image Quality Sorter (skip images already
> scanned).  Then I selected one folder with 99 Canon CR2 raw images, and
> two subfolders with TIF images: one with 33 HDR images and the other
> with 2 edited images.
> 
> I left all of the default options checked under settings.
> 
> It took hours and several restarts to get through all the images.
> 
> None of the Canon RAW images were marked in any way. The others were.
> 
> Is this tool designed to skip Canon RAW images?
> Is this the level of performance I should expect when using the Image
> Quality Sorter?