Collection on usb hdd does not work well

[Anders Lund]

Hi,

I have a collection on a USB harddisk, and that does not get updated in
digikam when add a image to it, it looks like digikam does not watch for
changes.

I use darktable to edit my raw files, so I open a image in darktable, and
exports a jpeg into the same folder as the original - and digikam does not
pick it up.

i can use "refresh" in the album context menu, but that is insanely slow,
because it refreshes all thumbnails.

Is there anything I can do to make digikam behave as expected with a usb hdd?

Kindly,
Anders

[Gilles Caulier-4]

Which digiKam version do you use exactly ?

Gilles Caulier

2017-03-17 10:34 GMT+01:00 Anders Lund <[hidden email]>:

Hi,

I have a collection on a USB harddisk, and that does not get updated in
digikam when add a image to it, it looks like digikam does not watch for
changes.

I use darktable to edit my raw files, so I open a image in darktable, and
exports a jpeg into the same folder as the original - and digikam does not
pick it up.

i can use "refresh" in the album context menu, but that is insanely slow,
because it refreshes all thumbnails.

Is there anything I can do to make digikam behave as expected with a usb hdd?

Kindly,
Anders

[Anders Lund]

fredag den 17. marts 2017 11.49.27 CET skrev Gilles Caulier:
> Which digiKam version do you use exactly ?

5.5.0 on archlinux

>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> 2017-03-17 10:34 GMT+01:00 Anders Lund <[hidden email]>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a collection on a USB harddisk, and that does not get updated in
> > digikam when add a image to it, it looks like digikam does not watch for
> > changes.
> >
> > I use darktable to edit my raw files, so I open a image in darktable, and
> > exports a jpeg into the same folder as the original - and digikam does not
> > pick it up.
> >
> > i can use "refresh" in the album context menu, but that is insanely slow,
> > because it refreshes all thumbnails.
> >
> > Is there anything I can do to make digikam behave as expected with a usb
> > hdd?
> >
> > Kindly,
> > Anders

[Gilles Caulier-4]

Try option "Setup/Metadata/Behavior/Rescan file when modified"

Gilles Caulier

2017-03-17 11:55 GMT+01:00 Anders Lund <[hidden email]>:

fredag den 17. marts 2017 11.49.27 CET skrev Gilles Caulier:
> Which digiKam version do you use exactly ?

5.5.0 on archlinux

>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> 2017-03-17 10:34 GMT+01:00 Anders Lund <[hidden email]>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a collection on a USB harddisk, and that does not get updated in
> > digikam when add a image to it, it looks like digikam does not watch for
> > changes.
> >
> > I use darktable to edit my raw files, so I open a image in darktable, and
> > exports a jpeg into the same folder as the original - and digikam does not
> > pick it up.
> >
> > i can use "refresh" in the album context menu, but that is insanely slow,
> > because it refreshes all thumbnails.
> >
> > Is there anything I can do to make digikam behave as expected with a usb
> > hdd?
> >
> > Kindly,
> > Anders

Le 17/03/2017 à 10:34, Anders Lund a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> I have a collection on a USB harddisk, and that does not get updated in
> digikam when add a image to it, it looks like digikam does not watch for
> changes.
>
> I use darktable to edit my raw files, so I open a image in darktable, and
> exports a jpeg into the same folder as the original - and digikam does not
> pick it up.
>
> i can use "refresh" in the album context menu, but that is insanely slow,
> because it refreshes all thumbnails.
>
> Is there anything I can do to make digikam behave as expected with a usb hdd?
>
> Kindly,
> Anders
>

do you have versioning activated? I don't have problems with usb
collections, but I don't use versioning - your jpg could be seen as a
new version of the raw file??

just a wild guess

jdd

[Anders Lund]

fredag den 17. marts 2017 12.04.09 CET skrev Gilles Caulier:
> Try option "Setup/Metadata/Behavior/Rescan file when modified"

I enabled that, but it did not appear to help. And the metadata in files known
by digikam does not change when I export a photo from darktable, I believe.

Kindly,
Anders

>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> 2017-03-17 11:55 GMT+01:00 Anders Lund <[hidden email]>:
> > fredag den 17. marts 2017 11.49.27 CET skrev Gilles Caulier:
> > > Which digiKam version do you use exactly ?
> >
> > 5.5.0 on archlinux
> >
> > > Gilles Caulier
> > >
> > > 2017-03-17 10:34 GMT+01:00 Anders Lund <[hidden email]>:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I have a collection on a USB harddisk, and that does not get updated
> > > > in
> > > > digikam when add a image to it, it looks like digikam does not watch
> >
> > for
> >
> > > > changes.
> > > >
> > > > I use darktable to edit my raw files, so I open a image in darktable,
> >
> > and
> >
> > > > exports a jpeg into the same folder as the original - and digikam does
> >
> > not
> >
> > > > pick it up.
> > > >
> > > > i can use "refresh" in the album context menu, but that is insanely
> >
> > slow,
> >
> > > > because it refreshes all thumbnails.
> > > >
> > > > Is there anything I can do to make digikam behave as expected with a
> >
> > usb
> >
> > > > hdd?
> > > >
> > > > Kindly,
> > > > Anders

[Anders Lund]

fredag den 17. marts 2017 12.13.06 CET skrev jdd:

> Le 17/03/2017 à 10:34, Anders Lund a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a collection on a USB harddisk, and that does not get updated in
> > digikam when add a image to it, it looks like digikam does not watch for
> > changes.
> >
> > I use darktable to edit my raw files, so I open a image in darktable, and
> > exports a jpeg into the same folder as the original - and digikam does not
> > pick it up.
> >
> > i can use "refresh" in the album context menu, but that is insanely slow,
> > because it refreshes all thumbnails.
> >
> > Is there anything I can do to make digikam behave as expected with a usb
> > hdd?
> >
> > Kindly,
> > Anders
>
> do you have versioning activated? I don't have problems with usb
> collections, but I don't use versioning - your jpg could be seen as a
> new version of the raw file??
>
> just a wild guess

Thanks for the input. No new versions of the file appears, though - in  fact
the versions sidebar is empty for the files in question - the CR2 files.

Kindly,
Anders


>
> jdd

[Anders Lund]

I have observed that if the usb hdd is mounted when digikam is started, things
works. So it's quite easy to work around this problem - but how easy would it
be to solve? ;)

Kindly,
Anders

fredag den 17. marts 2017 10.34.46 CET skrev Anders Lund:

> Hi,
>
> I have a collection on a USB harddisk, and that does not get updated in
> digikam when add a image to it, it looks like digikam does not watch for
> changes.
>
> I use darktable to edit my raw files, so I open a image in darktable, and
> exports a jpeg into the same folder as the original - and digikam does not
> pick it up.
>
> i can use "refresh" in the album context menu, but that is insanely slow,
> because it refreshes all thumbnails.
>
> Is there anything I can do to make digikam behave as expected with a usb
> hdd?
>
> Kindly,
> Anders