Bug 472220

Summary: Renaming an album leads to an error if digiKam is working on it
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Alexandre Belz <alexandre.belz>
Component: Albums-TreeViewAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: normal CC: metzpinguin
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 8.1.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Microsoft Windows   
OS: Microsoft Windows   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Alexandre Belz 2023-07-13 13:25:10 UTC 
Created attachment 160265 [details]
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SUMMARY
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Renaming an album may lead to an error if Digikam is working on it (typically after an import process)
This is related to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412678  but know I think I understand why.
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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. From the album view (left tree) 
2. Choose an album, and refresh it (F5)
2. Do not wait and immediately try to rename the folder/album (Maj+F2).

OBSERVED RESULT
3. An error message appears

EXPECTED RESULT
3. folder/Album should be renamed as desired.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 10

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The error messages seems to appear if the bottom right progress bar is not 100%. If I wait the progress bar to finish, I don't see the error message, and the folder is correctly renamed.
I wonder if Digikam is certainly accessing some files, maybe even writing some sidecar files or database entries. It may be dangerous to rename this folder while a process is running, and this is maybe why digikam rises an error.

I suggest digikam to write a better message, such as "a process is running, please wait before renaming".
Or maybe cue it so that it's done when possible. "a process is running, renaming will be performed asap".
Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2025-04-11 18:13:48 UTC 
Hi,

The 8.7.0 pre-release Windows installer from today have been rebuilt from
scratch with Qt 6.8.3, KDE 6.12, OpenCV 4.11 + CUDA support, Exiv2 0.28.5, ExifTool 13.27, ffmpeg 7, all image codecs updated to last version (jxl, avif, heif, aom, etc.).

Please try with this version to see if your problem still reproducible...

https://files.kde.org/digikam/

Thanks in advance
Best regards

Gilles Caulier