Bug 460121 - what about executing exiftool on the NAS instead of the client?
Summary: what about executing exiftool on the NAS instead of the client?
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: digikam
Classification: Applications
Component: Metadata-ExifTool (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 7.9.0
Platform: Other Other
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Digikam Developers
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Reported: 2022-10-08 14:06 UTC by TiboFA
Modified: 2023-05-12 14:14 UTC (History)
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Description TiboFA 2022-10-08 14:06:14 UTC
SUMMARY
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I'm a very happy user of Digikam for years now, about 100.000 photos, I don't know how big is the tags tree, etc.
I'm using the windows version, and photos are on a synology NAS
I recently installed exiftool on the NAS itself, and when I have to run exiftool, instead of running it from my laptop, I open a SSH connection with my NAs and execute the exiftool command on it.
there's no file transfer on network, it's extremely fast. And that's good :-)
Is it something that could be managed with Digikam ? executing remotely exiftool ?
that would be a great performances improvement
thanks for what you do
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Comment 1 Maik Qualmann 2022-10-08 15:22:50 UTC
If I remember correctly, the development of ExifTool on NAS by an external developer has stopped. We currently do not plan to support it. Since we need the file anyway to create thumbnails or file hash, we can also use ExifTool locally.

Maik
Comment 2 TiboFA 2022-10-09 06:05:04 UTC
(In reply to Maik Qualmann from comment #1)
> If I remember correctly, the development of ExifTool on NAS by an external
> developer has stopped. We currently do not plan to support it. Since we need
> the file anyway to create thumbnails or file hash, we can also use ExifTool
> locally.
> 
> Maik

sure, I had to install exiftool directly in the OS, not with a package.
interest would not be while creating the thumbnail, but for all the other operations, when thumbnail is already created, and just changing a tag, location or anything else
but I fully understand it's not a priority
thanks