SUMMARY Working with digiKam 6.4.0 on Win10 Lenovo host with solid state drive. DigiKam exits unexpectedly from album view while creating thumbnails from recently added images. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Created (using Windows File Explorer) a new folder within my specified image file tree, containing about 70 16-bit gray-value tiff images newly scanned from prints using VueScan 9.7.28, TIFF compression "On", driving an Epson Perfection V600 scanner. Scanned photos are 5" x 7", scanned at 400 dpi (about 11Mbytes each on disk). Windows File Explorer displays thumbnails for all images as expected. Albums | - digiKam_Photos | - Print Color | - Print Gray <--folder with relevant images | - Trash 2. Launch digiKam. The "Find new items" process completes without complaint. 3. Open the Albums tree to view the image directory. Wait as long as I care to wait -- seconds to minutes. Click on the folder containing the newly scanned images. OBSERVED RESULT 1. On first attempt to view the album, one thumbnail (for the first image) was displayed, then the program exited. 2. With each subsequent launch of digiKam, upon opening the album view for the relevant folder, the previously available thumbnails are displayed, plus 0 to 2 (usually 1) new thumbnails for additional images, but the program then exits. EXPECTED RESULT Creation and display of thumbnails for all images in the folder. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: Win10Pro 10.0.19041 Build 19041 macOS: Linux/KDE Plasma: (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: KDE Frameworks Version: Qt Version: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Please try digiKam-7.0.0 from here: https://files.kde.org/digikam/ We fixed a memory request problem in digiKam-7.0.0 that could be triggered with large TIFF files. However, we still have an open bug report on TIFF files under Windows. It would be nice if you could provide a test TIFF file through an upload service. Maik
Per suggestion to furnish examples of images triggering the bug, I've placed three files (too large to attach here) at my dropbox public folder. Please see: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3ev74e02346iu4f/PG0006.tif?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/7q2tixtt99rg9zh/PG0013.tif?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/in0b1ji4e8xob05/PG0014.tif?dl=0
Thanks for your rapid reply! Have posted three images, via update to the bug report file. Criticality of the bug might be overtaken by events, if I can find a good way to scan directly to PNG files. Originally intended to do this using an Acquire Images Tool furnished as part of digiKam -- but have been unable to find the tool through the user interface. An email to the users group asking about this is pending the list moderator's approval of my subscription. -----Original Message----- From: Maik Qualmann <bugzilla_noreply@kde.org> Sent: Monday, July 20, 2020 3:18 PM To: robertlbecker@verizon.net Subject: [digikam] [Bug 424482] Album view crashes creating thumbnails https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424482 Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |metzpinguin@gmail.com --- Comment #1 from Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin@gmail.com> --- Please try digiKam-7.0.0 from here: https://files.kde.org/digikam/ We fixed a memory request problem in digiKam-7.0.0 that could be triggered with large TIFF files. However, we still have an open bug report on TIFF files under Windows. It would be nice if you could provide a test TIFF file through an upload service. Maik -- You are receiving this mail because: You reported the bug.=
In a short test in a Windows10 VM with digiKam-7.0.0 I can not reproduce any problems with the 3 TIFF files. Please test it with digiKam-7.0.0. https://files.kde.org/digikam/ Maik
Will be glad to try out digiKam 7.0.0. Am I correct to conclude that the relevant download is: https://download.kde.org/unstable/digikam/digiKam-7.0.0-rc-Win64.exe dated 14-Jun-2020 10:00? Hopefully an automatic installer (analogous to what I used for 6.4.0?
...oh, I see now the 16 July file postings. Will proceed with the 32 bit version via link https://files.kde.org/digikam/digiKam-7.0.0-20200716T095418-Win32.exe
... better yet (I hope), the installable version from https://files.kde.org/digikam/digiKam-7.0.0-20200716T122924-Win64.exe Apologies for the incremental updates.
Version 7.0.0 installed like a dream and zipped licketysplit through creating thumbnails for all 70+ images in the folder. Looks like the relevant bug is history. Thank you!
Thank you very much for your feedback. DigiKam-7.0.0 will appear as official in the next days. Gilles currently writing the release announcement. Maik