SUMMARY Digikam should have a single button to "Scan for New Items" in its collection. Right now, it has the "Refresh" button, which from the behavior looks like it just refreshes the thumbnails. This bug report is a feature request to add the "Scan for New Items" functionality, either into the "Refresh" button, or into its own separate single button. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Click on Refresh 2. Only ThumbNails refresh OBSERVED RESULT Only ThumbNails refresh EXPECTED RESULT Need a single button workflow to refresh the Digikam Collections SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS KDE Frameworks 5.69.0 Qt 5.14.2 (built against 5.14.2) The xcb windowing system digikam version 7.0.0-beta3 CPU cores: 8 Eigen: 3.3.3 Exiv2: 0.27.2 Exiv2 can write to Jp2: Yes Exiv2 can write to Jpeg: Yes Exiv2 can write to Pgf: Yes Exiv2 can write to Png: Yes Exiv2 can write to Tiff: Yes Exiv2 supports XMP metadata: Yes HEIF encoding support: Yes ImageMagick codecs: 6.9.10 KF5: 5.69.0 LensFun: 0.3.95-0 LibCImg: 130 LibJPEG: 80 LibJasper: 1.900.23 LibLCMS: 2080 LibLqr support: Yes LibPGF: 7.19.03 LibPNG: 1.6.35 LibRaw: 0.20.0 LibTIFF: 4.0.10 Marble: 0.27.20 Parallelized demosaicing: Yes Qt: 5.14.2 Qt WebEngine support: Yes VKontakte support: No AkonadiContact support: No Baloo support: No Calendar support: Yes DBus support: No Database backend: QSQLITE HTML Gallery support: Yes LibAVCodec: 57.89.100 LibAVFormat: 57.71.100 LibAVUtil: 55.58.100 LibGphoto2: 2.5.14 LibOpenCV: 3.4.10 LibQtAV: 1.13.0 Media player support: Yes Panorama support: Yes
Oh!! And currently, Digikam does have the "Maintenance" path to scan new items. But it is not a single button workflow and has many more options, which may not be intuitive enough for novice users.
The refresh button not only refreshes the thumbnails, but also searches for new items. You can put the refresh button on the toolbar. There is a key combination that only searches for new items: Ctrl + F5. There is also the option to automatically update the album when external changes detected (Collections-> album monitoring). I don't think we need another button. Maik
(In reply to Maik Qualmann from comment #2) > The refresh button not only refreshes the thumbnails, but also searches for > new items. You can put the refresh button on the toolbar. There is a key > combination that only searches for new items: Ctrl + F5. There is also the > option to automatically update the album when external changes detected > (Collections-> album monitoring). I don't think we need another button. > > Maik It does not seem to be working proper then. I have some collections over the network (Samba Share), with monitoring enabled in Digikam. But new items in the network share are not detected by Digikam with just the "Refresh" button. I need to restart Digikam to reflect those new files. And Digikam does so because it has the "Scan for New Items" on start-up option enabled.
Well, album monitoring only works with physical drives. The refresch via F5 only updates the currently selected physical album. If I understand you correctly, you want to update the entire collection like when you started digikam. Maik
Git commit 9193efb0998e380f4fd891cbcf275321704099b7 by Maik Qualmann. Committed on 21/05/2020 at 10:39. Pushed by mqualmann into branch 'master'. add menu entry to scan for new items FIXED-IN: 7.0.0 M +4 -3 NEWS M +1 -0 core/app/main/digikamapp.h M +2 -0 core/app/main/digikamapp_p.h M +6 -0 core/app/main/digikamapp_setup.cpp M +17 -0 core/app/main/digikamapp_tools.cpp M +2 -1 core/app/main/digikamui5.rc https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/commit/9193efb0998e380f4fd891cbcf275321704099b7