[digiKam-users] Album refresh

[Maik Qualmann]

Under MacOS it slows down the start of digiKam network collections (around 20 
minutes was reported). Adding a watch uses kernel resources. Some systems end 
with 256 albums, but with a modern Linux kernel the end is reached above 10-30 
thousand albums. A monitored folder is locked under Windows, cannot be deleted 
or moved, and removable disks cannot be unmounted. So it is not really useful 
/ possible to monitor all albums in large collections. Maybe we make it 
configurable to set a few albums, digiKam no longer needs the album monitoring 
internally. If you add files with drag & drop or via copy / paste, digiKam 
will of course update the view.

Maik

Am Mittwoch, 15. Januar 2020, 07:54:01 CET schrieb leoutation at gmx.fr:
> On 1/15/20 6:48 AM, Maik Qualmann wrote:
> > You are probably looking for the option to monitor the albums for external
> > changes. You can find these in the digiKam Setup under collections.
> > Monitoring for external changes is now deactivated by default, since it
> > can also cause various problems.
> 
> Hi
> Which kind of "various problem"?
> 
> --
> Maderios