Bug 510179

Summary: A DK background process remains after closing DK
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Frederic Da Vitoria <davito9w>
Component: Faces-EngineAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: caulier.gilles, metzpinguin
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 8.7.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Microsoft Windows   
OS: Microsoft Windows   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In: 8.8.0
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: Windows task manager with 4 DK background processes

Description Frederic Da Vitoria 2025-10-02 18:16:26 UTC
Created attachment 185466 [details]
Windows task manager with 4 DK background processes

SUMMARY
After closing digiKam, a background process remains in memory.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Close digiKam
2. Wait a few seconds to allow the closing operations to end

OBSERVED RESULT
A background process named "advanced digital photo management application" remains. This process does not use any CPU or disk. Any file locked when dK was open stays locked, though.

EXPECTED RESULT
After a few seconds, no dK process should remain.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 11 24H2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I noticed because I wanted to rename a directory. The DK background process prevented me from doing it.

If I run DK without terminating the background process first, upon closing DK I get 2 DK background processes. At one point, I had 4 of them.
Comment 1 Maik Qualmann 2025-10-02 19:14:57 UTC
Fixed with Bug 505199

Pre-release digiKam-8.8.0: https://files.kde.org/digikam/

Maik
Comment 2 Frederic Da Vitoria 2025-10-02 20:01:40 UTC
Wow, that was fast !