After running 'read metadata from file to database', digiKam is continuing to have excessive disk read and write. iotop reports: TID PRIO USER DISK READ DISK WRITE SWAPIN IO> COMMAND 5287 be/0 john 4.34 G 24.30 G 0.00 % 84.62 % digikam5 [Thread (pooled)] The progress indicator says 'No active process' The command-line is saying: ... digikam.metaengine: Orientation => Exif.Image.Orientation => 1 digikam.general: mimetype = "JPEG" ext = "JPG" digikam.general: mimetype = "JPEG" ext = "JPG" digikam.metaengine: Orientation => Exif.Image.Orientation => 1 digikam.general: mimetype = "JPEG" ext = "JPG" digikam.metaengine: Exiv2 ( 3 ) : XMP Toolkit error 101: Schema namespace URI and prefix mismatch digikam.metaengine: Exiv2 ( 2 ) : Failed to decode XMP metadata. digikam.general: mimetype = "JPEG" ext = "JPG" digikam.general: mimetype = "JPEG" ext = "JPG" digikam.metaengine: Orientation => Exif.Image.Orientation => 1 digikam.general: mimetype = "JPEG" ext = "JPG" digikam.general: mimetype = "JPEG" ext = "JPG" digikam.metaengine: Orientation => Exif.Image.Orientation => 1 digikam.general: mimetype = "JPEG" ext = "JPG" digikam.general: mimetype = "JPEG" ext = "JPG" digikam.metaengine: Orientation => Exif.Image.Orientation => 1 digikam.general: mimetype = "JPEG" ext = "JPG" digikam.general: mimetype = "JPEG" ext = "JPG" digikam.metaengine: Orientation => Exif.Image.Orientation => 1 digikam.general: mimetype = "JPEG" ext = "JPG" digikam.general: mimetype = "JPEG" ext = "JPG" digikam.metaengine: Orientation => Exif.Image.Orientation => 1 ... This has been going on for hours. What is it doing?
digiKam 7.0.0 stable release is now published: https://www.digikam.org/news/2020-07-19-7.0.0_release_announcement/ We need a fresh feedback on this file using this version. Best Regards Gilles Caulier
Not reproducible since a very long time. I close this file now.