Bug 266684

Summary:	writing metadata needs _hurting_ long times (247141 NOT resolved??)
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	Axel Krebs <axel.krebs>
Component:	Metadata-Engine	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	caulier.gilles
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.8.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	7.1.0

Description Axel Krebs 2011-02-19 20:00:38 UTC

Version:           1.8.0 (using KDE 4.5.1) 
OS:                Linux

When "writing metadata in all files", it takes hours for hours. Compared to DK Version 1.2 or so, I can NOT see improvements. 

I suggest urgntly to us an internal marker to write metadata only in _new_ pics, where this didn't take place already. 

The message "update matedata" or so indicates, that the user can choose if writing _all_ metadat or _only_ new metadata. 
From my observations, this message is definitively misleading, as DK only writes _all_ or _no_ metadata!!!

SUGGESTION: whenever taking up new pics in database, write metadata in pics and/or database in background. 

Maybe, one should be able to configure this item in settings. For my opinion, this is just a short retardation in working speed- neglectible. 

One could use caches to do this job in the background. Not embarrassing the user.

There are several mechanisms to achieve this. 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
It is a WISH

Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2011-12-16 16:22:41 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 188925 ***

Comment 2 caulier.gilles 2020-08-30 15:58:48 UTC

Fixed with #188925