Bug 441353

Summary:	database rescan command-line option?
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	Johannes Berg <johannes>
Component:	Maintenance-Database	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	metzpinguin
Priority:	NOR
Version:	7.1.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
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Description Johannes Berg 2021-08-22 10:55:07 UTC

I've got some non-digikam "import-like" workflow, and for that it'd be nice to have a way to force an album rescan (like digikam does after startup) from the command-line, exiting when completed.

Any chance of such a thing getting accepted? Unless it's super complicated due to some structure (or maybe because digikam simply doesn't have a way of running without UI?), I'd take a stab myself at implementing it.

Comment 1 Maik Qualmann 2021-08-22 11:10:17 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 254099 ***

Comment 2 Maik Qualmann 2021-08-22 11:13:52 UTC

I suspect that the scan at the start of digKam takes too long that you therefore want to have a command line option. We have significantly accelerated the scan at the start in digiKam-7.4.0 (git/master), see Bug 405235

Maik

Comment 3 Johannes Berg 2021-08-22 11:20:57 UTC

Oops, thanks for the duplicate, I was thinking of rescan only.

It's not (just) about the duration of the scan - I'm also doing some database manipulations in my scripting (adding a tag to understand when I imported a given picture), and I didn't dare insert the new files into the database myself, so currently I'm manually starting digikam while the script waits for user input.