[digiKam-users] Album refresh

[Stuart T Rogers]

I have done this loads of times with no adverse effect on Linux and V6 
of Digikam. I suspect what happened was Digikam was looking for changes 
while you were copying. I've always had to refresh Digikam after 
creating a new directory and/or copying images.

Stuart

On 15/01/2020 10:47, Martin Burnicki wrote:
> leoutation at gmx.fr wrote:
>> 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"?
> 
> I've just recently run into one on Linux.
> 
> While DK 6.1 was running, I used a file manager (Dolphin) to create a
> new folder inside DK's album tree, and then copied some photos from my
> smartphone via a USB connection into that folder.
> 
> All those images were corrupted, i.e. an upper part of each image looked
> OK, but the lower part of each image was just shown with an empty, gray
> background. Also some other photo viewer applications were unable to
> display those images.
> 
> However, after I had stopped DK, copied the images once more, and then
> restarted DK, DK automatically detected the new photos and displayed
> them correctly, and also other applications could properly show those
> images.
> 
> My assumption is that as soon as a download of a photo starts and a
> target file is created, DK gets notified and tries to add the new image
> to its database. If the download / copying is not complete when this
> happens, the remaining part of the file can't be saved because the file
> has been opened by DK, resulting in incomplete and thus corrupted image
> files.
> 
> I don't know if there is a safe way to avoid this problem. A possible
> workaround could be to let DK not open the files to make sure the file
> is complete before it is opened by DK.
> 
> But of course, also disabling automatic detection of new photos should
> avoid this.
> 
> Martin
> 

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