"scan for new items" always scans the entire collection

[Vlado Plaga]

Hi Charlie,

with dates I had a similar problem to yours, and I reported it:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511229

My problem is not the same as the one reported in Reddit, though, since
individual pictures still all have their date, and I can sort them by
date. It it the selection/ filtering by date via the "Dates" pane,
which does not work for me.

I have two solutions:

a) use the AppImage instead of using the distribution package
b) rebuilding the database (going through XMP Sidecar export & import)
- this at least worked for a part of my collection

Regards,
Vlado


Am Donnerstag, dem 09.07.2026 um 00:02 -0700 schrieb Charlie
Gorichanaz:
> I think I may have been noticing this excessing rescanning as well as
> another problem related to timestamps but haven't had any time to
> debug: Sorting by camera date completely stopped working for me
> recently and the dates disappeared from the listing screen, but the
> metadata is fine for the photos, similar to this Reddit
> post: https://www.reddit.com/r/digiKam/comments/1q3yqrg/exif_date_cre
> ated_not_shown_in_digikam/
> The lack of people reporting this made me think it must be something
> particular to my setup or that I messed up, hence waiting to say
> anything. Then I discovered launching the AppImage instead of the
> native Arch Linux package solved that problem, but I'm not sure about
> the rescanning issue. I have been meaning to sit down and figure out
> what's going on!
> 
> —
> Charlie Gorichanaz
>