[digiKam-users] Problem moving images to other albums

[Maik Qualmann]

There must be a difference in the base name of the image and the sidecar if it 
is not moved. May be case sensitive if the images are on a drive with Windows 
file system. Please check it out. 

Maik

Am Freitag, 4. Juni 2021, 15:45:11 CEST schrieb digikam at 911networks.com:
> On Fri, 04 Jun 2021 07:54:32 +0200
> 
> Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Please post the source directory list before and
> > after the move.
> 
> Sorry I do not understand what you are asking but:
> 
> source: /drive-b/photos/intake
> 
> destination: /drive-b/photos/people/activities/cycling-2021
> 
> ls -alF /drive-b/photos/intake
> total 108
> drwxrwxr-x  2 froggy    100 65536 Jun  4 06:37 ./
> drwxrwxr-x 24 froggy    100 12288 Jun  3 13:58 ../
> -rw-r--r--  1 froggy froggy  1634 Jun  3 13:46 cyclists-20210603-0928.xmp
> -rw-r--r--  1 froggy froggy  1634 Jun  3 13:46 cyclists-20210603-0929.xmp
> -rw-r--r--  1 froggy froggy  1634 Jun  3 13:46 cyclists-20210603-0930.xmp
> -rw-r--r--  1 froggy froggy  1634 Jun  3 13:46 cyclists-20210603-0931.xmp
> -rw-r--r--  1 froggy froggy  1634 Jun  3 13:46 cyclists-20210603-0932.xmp
> -rw-r--r--  1 froggy froggy  1634 Jun  3 13:46 cyclists-20210603-0933.xmp
> -rw-r--r--  1 froggy froggy  1634 Jun  3 13:46 cyclists-20210603-0934.xmp
> 
> (160 other images with their xmp got moved without problem)
> 
> $ df -h /dev/sdb*
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> dev             5.9G     0  5.9G   0% /dev
> /dev/sdb1       2.7T  1.8T  812G  69% /drive-b
> 
> (3Tb Western digital Sata2 with 800+G free space)
> 
> $ cat /etc/fstab
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a device; this
> may # be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices that works
> even if # disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
> #
> # <file system>             <mount point>  <type>  <options>  <dump>  <pass>
> UUID=c7364172-696f-4cfc-9dc6-7d15e25c2f4c /boot          ext4   
> defaults,noatime 0 2 UUID=823016ef-8ae1-4de9-be62-6fb7ea2aaa72 /           
>   ext4    defaults,noatime 0 1 UUID=d7a98f8e-0ae5-4d38-bdab-e2e22c7e495d
> swap           swap    defaults,noatime 0 0
> UUID=48946de2-efca-4e0c-abcc-fcd8b565273b /drive-b       ext4   
> defaults,noatime 0 1
> > Maik
> > 
> > Am Donnerstag, 3. Juni 2021, 22:57:57 CEST schrieb
> > 
> > digikam at 911networks.com:
> > > Moved: 160 odd images and 7 xmp (lowercase) did not move with the
> > > images.
> > > 
> > > The debug is at:
> > > 
> > > https://www.sritch.com/pages/digikam-debug.txt
> > > 
> > > The 7 xmp files missed are:
> > > 
> > > $ ls -alF /drive-b/photos/intake/cyclists-20210603-*.xmp
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 froggy froggy 1634 Jun  3 13:46
> > > /drive-b/photos/intake/cyclists-20210603-0928.xmp -rw-r--r-- 1
> > > froggy froggy 1634 Jun  3 13:46
> > > /drive-b/photos/intake/cyclists-20210603-0929.xmp -rw-r--r-- 1
> > > froggy froggy 1634 Jun  3 13:46
> > > /drive-b/photos/intake/cyclists-20210603-0930.xmp -rw-r--r-- 1
> > > froggy froggy 1634 Jun  3 13:46
> > > /drive-b/photos/intake/cyclists-20210603-0931.xmp -rw-r--r-- 1
> > > froggy froggy 1634 Jun  3 13:46
> > > /drive-b/photos/intake/cyclists-20210603-0932.xmp -rw-r--r-- 1
> > > froggy froggy 1634 Jun  3 13:46
> > > /drive-b/photos/intake/cyclists-20210603-0933.xmp -rw-r--r-- 1
> > > froggy froggy 1634 Jun  3 13:46
> > > /drive-b/photos/intake/cyclists-20210603-0934.xmp $
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 03 Jun 2021 22:12:08 +0200
> > > 
> > > Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Can't reproduce the problem, of course sidecars are
> > > > automatically moved with the image. Both sidecar formats are
> > > > supported when copying / moving, i.e. BASENAME.xmp and
> > > > BASENAME.EXT.xmp. Are you sure you are using digiKam-7.2.0?
> > > > Copy / move support for BASENAME.xmp was only added in this
> > > > version.  Possibly activate debug output by setting the
> > > > environment variable and posting the output in the terminal of
> > > > the move process.
> > > > 
> > > > https://www.digikam.org/contribute/
> > > > 
> > > > Maik
> > > > 
> > > > Am Donnerstag, 3. Juni 2021, 21:37:24 CEST schrieb
> > > > 
> > > > digikam at 911networks.com:
> > > > > DK 7.2.0 appimage on Manjaro KDE (current)
> > > > > 
> > > > > DK root album is: /photos/
> > > > > 
> > > > > My workflow:
> > > > > 
> > > > > 1. copy all images from the sd card to: /photos/intake
> > > > > 2. open DK
> > > > > 3. look through the album  /photos/intake, delete the out of
> > > > > focus, rename from img_0138.cr2 to
> > > > > pano-granville-island-20210412-0138.cr2 (for example)
> > > > > 4. when done, move them to the "proper albums" with "right
> > > > > click > move to album"
> > > > > 
> > > > > The problem is that DK "forgets" to also move the XMP files
> > > > > associated with the images. They are left in the
> > > > > /photos/intake folder and I need to move them manually (no
> > > > > xmp in the destination album for these images).
> > > > > 
> > > > > BTW, my xmps are filename.xmp (not filename.ext.xmp). I don't
> > > > > know if this related to that