Created/modified date & Digikam start problems

[Paristo]

Hi! I have two subjects, other is already asked and still a "unsolved"
problem.

1.
Is there coming any change to photo "created/modified : dd.mm.yyyy hh:mm"
information how it is shown?
I always use a 128 size preview and i just noticed that if i change preview to
smaller, i just see "created/modified" text and not information. So mayby
there should be somekind change how to show that information, like just
like "c : dd.mm.yyyy hh:mm" and "m : dd.mm.yyyy hh:mm". So user would know
that m = modified and c = created information and those informations would be
seen with smaller preview.
Im planning to add wish report about this but i would like to know is there
something what i'm doing wrong in this case?

2.
My old problem to start a digikam has got new "turn".
My problem was that almost everytime i started digikam, it didn't start (99%
of case), and it stopped in a "Reading database" part (My pictures are on USB
harddrive). When i run digikam from console, it didn't give any error message
but just printed as last info that what version of dcraw i was using.

And when i compiled svn version with debug information, problem didn't ever
come up and digikam always started as it should!
I have tryed a mandriva official, backported and cooker versions and always
same problem was happening. And it was happening with Kubuntu and OpenSUSE
distributions too with same PC.

Now i have new information about this and i dont know how to use it
as "advance" to solve this problem. I installed PCLinuxOS to my laptop and i
noticed that digikam starts now with 95% change. But when i move drive (USB
cable) back to Mandriva 2008, digikam still halts to that "reading database"
positon.

I have even made fresh database and added all albums one by one to new
database (by menu option "add folder") and between albums, i restarted
digikam until it didn't start and then moved those albums away to find
problematic albums, this didnt' solve anything :-(.
Example, Digikam didn't start anymore with album no.356 and then i moved
no.356, and digikam didnt' start, so i moved 355 away and then it started
again. Then i added albums back one by one, and it migh halt again with
no.420 album but not with no.356 when it didn't start anymore last time.
And if just had only those albums what didn't allow digikam to start in my
database, there was no problem and digikam started :-/
So problem didn't exist on spesific file :-/

So now i need to ask, what can make so big difference in this case when i try
with same digikam version but  different distribution, PCLinuxOS vs
Mandriva/OpenSUSE/Kubuntu?

If i plug USB-HD to:
Mandriva, digikam dont start but halts to "reading database".
Kubuntu, digikam dont start but halts to "reading database".
OpenSUSE, digikam dont start but halts to "reading database".
PCLinuxOS, digikam starts and only sometimes halts to "reading database".

User names (and UID/GID) are same on all distributions and all
files/directories on my USBHD has correctly set permissions.

So in this time, i'm "stuck" to PCLinuxOS if i want to use digikam to organize
my photographs but i would like to have option to do this with mandriva PC
too (powerfull and bigger monitor). So i need to use a "--debug" version from
Digikam to get it work with Mandriva. So question is what problems i might
have with it, like does it write anything special to digikam3.db or picture
metadata, so is it safe to use it?
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Dnia Tuesday 26 of February 2008, Risto Saukonpää napisał:

> Hi! I have two subjects, other is already asked and still a "unsolved"
> problem.
>
> 1.
> Is there coming any change to photo "created/modified : dd.mm.yyyy
> hh:mm" information how it is shown?
> I always use a 128 size preview and i just noticed that if i change
> preview to smaller, i just see "created/modified" text and not
> information. So mayby there should be somekind change how to show that
> information, like just like "c : dd.mm.yyyy hh:mm" and "m : dd.mm.yyyy
> hh:mm". So user would know that m = modified and c = created information
> and those informations would be seen with smaller preview.
> Im planning to add wish report about this but i would like to know is
> there something what i'm doing wrong in this case?

Well, one thing is missing: what strings are cut - Captions below
thumbnail, text in panel?
>
> 2.
> My old problem to start a digikam has got new "turn".

As far as I understand digiKam doesn't support reading/writing of
database from non-local repositories. It mostly applies to network
drives but not only. Differences between various distributions probably
means that they are mounting USB in slightly different ways and
with some settings sqlite (database engine of digiKam) can read data and
sometimes not.

m.

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[Paristo]

Sorry about this late answer to Vol 33, Issue 38 post.

> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:32:24 +0100
> From: Mikolaj Machowski <[hidden email]>

> Well, one thing is missing: what strings are cut - Captions below
> thumbnail, text in panel?

Date captions below thumbnail is cut. This can be fixed by user if resizing
font size to small enought (smaller than 8pt) but it would be better to
change text "created" and "modified" to smaller like "C:" "M:" than actual
important info, dates.

> As far as I understand digiKam doesn't support reading/writing of
> database from non-local repositories. It mostly applies to network
> drives but not only. Differences between various distributions probably
> means that they are mounting USB in slightly different ways and
> with some settings sqlite (database engine of digiKam) can read data and
> sometimes not.

My problem exist even if i would use normal HD and not USB drive. So it's not
about that remote problem. It's just something to do between two different,
Mandriva and PCLinuxOS builds. I even tryed this again by copying everything
to two different machines and same happend, PCLinuxOS starts about everytime
(95% change) but Mandriva just hangs. I just dont get what could be wrong :-/

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[Gilles Caulier-4]

2008/3/4, Risto. S <[hidden email]>:

Sorry about this late answer to Vol 33, Issue 38 post.

> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:32:24 +0100
> From: Mikolaj Machowski <[hidden email]>


> Well, one thing is missing: what strings are cut - Captions below
> thumbnail, text in panel?


Date captions below thumbnail is cut. This can be fixed by user if resizing
font size to small enought (smaller than 8pt) but it would be better to
change text "created" and "modified" to smaller like "C:" "M:" than actual
important info, dates.


> As far as I understand digiKam doesn't support reading/writing of
> database from non-local repositories. It mostly applies to network
> drives but not only. Differences between various distributions probably
> means that they are mounting USB in slightly different ways and
> with some settings sqlite (database engine of digiKam) can read data and
> sometimes not.


My problem exist even if i would use normal HD and not USB drive. So it's not
about that remote problem. It's just something to do between two different,
Mandriva and PCLinuxOS builds. I even tryed this again by copying everything
to two different machines and same happend, PCLinuxOS starts about everytime
(95% change) but Mandriva just hangs. I just dont get what could be wrong :-/

Perhaps it's a kernel issue problem (outside digiKam in fact). Look if all is ok from kernel in /var/log/messages when you access to your drive with digiKam.

Best

Gilles Caulier

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