[digiKam-users] updating pictures outside of digikam?

[Peter Teuben]

I did forget to mention this:   I am not using sidecar, I'm storing the 
captions internally,

i can see the sidecar method being more complicated (well, I guess just 
adding more synmlinks), but my case should be "easier".

I'm more thinking of the problem I saw with snaps (this is a known problem)

On 5/25/20 11:35 AM, Remco Viëtor wrote:
> 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...
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> Remco
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