The problem appears after I filled information about description, tags and geolocation for approximately 30 photographs. I have to kill and restart Digikam. Much more information is available in "Steps to Reproduce" below. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Digikam 4.5.0 in french language 2. Create a collection of thousands of raw and jpeg photographs taken with an EOS 5d camera (28200 .CR2 and .JPG files in my case) 3. Select a directory containing test photographs in this collection (250 .CR2 and .JPG files in my case) 4. Fill the following information for 29 .JPG files : captions (a description of each photograph), tags (one to three tags per photograph) and geolocations (e.g. 50.359584, 7.604821 using the Image/Geolocation menu) 5. Close Digikam 6. Run Digikam 7. Digikam freeze each time I select a JPG photograph. I have to restart the software. I noticed that GPS information in the JPEG file Windows properties is not as expected. When I fill latitude 50.359584 and lontitude 7.604821. The GPS Windows properties are respectively "50; 21; 24.502340000006413" and "7; 36; 17.355599999999072". It could be the problem. My configuration is 64 bits Windows 8.1 in french configuration.
Please try to get a backtrace of digiKam using DebugView under Windows, as it's explained here : https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Debugging/Debugging_on_MS_Windows Gilles Caulier
Following you will find the trace : 00000001 0.00000000 [1108] rmt rpc_send_receive_server3: 0x1171338D96BC6BAE <- 0x1171338D0FD5664A 00000002 0.00005192 [1108] 00000003 0.00017086 [1108] rmt rpc_send_receive_server called, obj 0x0419DEB8 00000004 0.00021946 [1108] 00000005 0.00027078 [1108] rmt public objects: checked 0x0419DEB8 - exists 00000006 0.00030821 [1108] 00000007 0.00214903 [6444] rmt rpc_send_receive_server3: 0x1171339DA391E51E <- 0x1171339D0FD5664B 00000008 0.00221333 [6444] 00000009 0.00231989 [6444] rmt rpc_send_receive_server called, obj 0x0237DEB8 00000010 0.00235642 [6444] 00000011 0.00241528 [6444] rmt public objects: checked 0x0237DEB8 - exists 00000012 0.00244879 [6444] 00000013 0.00454982 [2820] rmt rpc_send_receive_server3: 0x117133AC9F5A058E <- 0x117133AC0FD5664C 00000014 0.00461201 [2820] 00000015 0.00471918 [2820] rmt rpc_send_receive_server called, obj 0x0495DE58 00000016 0.00475540 [2820] 00000017 0.00481638 [2820] rmt public objects: checked 0x0495DE58 - exists 00000018 0.00492686 [2820] 00000019 0.08956683 [5996] SHIMVIEW: ShimInfo(Complete) 00000020 0.41920877 [8008] QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave. 00000021 0.51452506 [3032] SHIMVIEW: ShimInfo(Complete) 00000022 0.58024395 [4736] digikam(4736)/phonon (KDE plugin): Can not create backend object from factory for "VLC" , "phonon_vlc" : 00000023 0.58024395 [4736] "Could not find plugin 'VLC' for application 'digikam'" 00000024 0.58119184 [4736] WARNING: bool __thiscall Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend(void) phonon backend plugin could not be loaded 00000025 0.58280772 [4736] digikam(4736)/phonon (KDE plugin): Can not create backend object from factory for "VLC" , "phonon_vlc" : 00000026 0.58280772 [4736] "Could not find plugin 'VLC' for application 'digikam'" 00000027 0.58380663 [4736] WARNING: bool __thiscall Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend(void) phonon backend plugin could not be loaded 00000028 0.97260416 [3152] SHIMVIEW: ShimInfo(Complete) 00000029 1.01703072 [4736] digikam(4736)/phonon (KDE plugin): Can not create backend object from factory for "VLC" , "phonon_vlc" : 00000030 1.01703072 [4736] "Could not find plugin 'VLC' for application 'digikam'" 00000031 1.01787841 [4736] WARNING: bool __thiscall Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend(void) phonon backend plugin could not be loaded 00000032 1.01930380 [4736] digikam(4736)/phonon (KDE plugin): Can not create backend object from factory for "VLC" , "phonon_vlc" : 00000033 1.01930380 [4736] "Could not find plugin 'VLC' for application 'digikam'" 00000034 1.02011800 [4736] WARNING: bool __thiscall Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend(void) phonon backend plugin could not be loaded 00000035 1.02159965 [4736] digikam(4736)/phonon (KDE plugin): Can not create backend object from factory for "VLC" , "phonon_vlc" : 00000036 1.02159965 [4736] "Could not find plugin 'VLC' for application 'digikam'" 00000037 1.02248859 [4736] WARNING: bool __thiscall Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend(void) phonon backend plugin could not be loaded 00000038 1.02253866 [4736] WARNING: Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect Phonon::MediaObject ( no objectName ) to Phonon::AudioOutput ( no objectName ). 00000039 1.02404118 [4736] digikam(4736)/phonon (KDE plugin): Can not create backend object from factory for "VLC" , "phonon_vlc" : 00000040 1.02404118 [4736] "Could not find plugin 'VLC' for application 'digikam'" 00000041 1.02492535 [4736] WARNING: bool __thiscall Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend(void) phonon backend plugin could not be loaded 00000042 1.02497971 [4736] WARNING: Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect Phonon::MediaObject ( no objectName ) to Phonon::VideoWidget ( no objectName ). 00000043 1.02649200 [4736] digikam(4736)/phonon (KDE plugin): Can not create backend object from factory for "VLC" , "phonon_vlc" : 00000044 1.02649200 [4736] "Could not find plugin 'VLC' for application 'digikam'" 00000045 1.02733278 [4736] WARNING: bool __thiscall Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend(void) phonon backend plugin could not be loaded 00000046 2.05897331 [4180] SHIMVIEW: ShimInfo(Complete) 00000047 2.17447186 [4524] SHIMVIEW: ShimInfo(Complete) 00000048 2.20382333 [7528] SHIMVIEW: ShimInfo(Complete)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 340139 ***
Not reproducible with 6.0.0