Bug 485873

Summary: Scan Collections process follows symlinks.
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: fabrice salvaire <fabrice.salvaire>
Component: Database-ScanAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: caulier.gilles, metzpinguin
Priority: NOR    
Version: 8.3.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description fabrice salvaire 2024-04-21 01:53:00 UTC
I am just trying Digikam on a very large collections (140k).
The file hierarchy has several symbolic links that point to directories to help the navigation etc.
Unfortunately, the discovery process follows symlinks (doesn't resolve path), thus it makes zillion of duplicates.
In my case, I have some top links, so the collection is basically multiplied by two, three, ...
So Digikam is useless on this case.

Solution:
- implement a fix to the discovery process
- and implement a cleanup process for the database
- or add a configuration option
Comment 1 Maik Qualmann 2024-04-21 04:57:02 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 202094 ***