[digiKam-users] updating pictures outside of digikam?

[Remco Viëtor]

On lundi 25 mai 2020 17:28:37 CEST Peter Teuben wrote:
> I sometimes wind up doing certain things outside of digikam, and here I
> have a case I don't quite understand why it doesn't work exactly as I
> think it should.
> 
> I should add that in the collections tab I have the options tagged that
> monitors albums for external changes (and it says this needs a restart).
> So when I add or delete pictures, digikam nicely tracks that.
> 
> My problem is when I have a symlink to a photo, then add a caption, it
> shows up locally in the symlink location. but it doesn't show up at the
> source. Even after a restart. It must be in there, as I refresh the
> folder with the symlinks, it shows the caption.  I've also confirmed the
> source photos have the captions, the timestamps were changed, exiftools
> shows it, but digikam doesn't show the caption that was added via the
> symlink .... Is there another way to rebuild the captions in the DB ?
> 
> But isn't this a bug?  I just ran into something similar with snaps,
> they cannot handle a home directory which is a symlink (apparently mount
> with the bind option might resolve that). So there's another reason not
> to use snaps for digikam :-)
> 
Are you using side car files? and are those also symlinks, or local files? 
(i.e. if you have IMG1.jpg as a symlink to .../cc/img_1.jpg,
do you have a sidecar IMG1.jpg.xmp, and is it a local file, or a symlink to 
.../cc/img_1.jpg/xmp ?)

Not sure that this plays a role, but...

Remco