Digikam 2.2 (Fedora 16) problems

[Alberto Ferrante]

Hi all,
I really like Digikam and I would like to use it to manage my photo
archive. Unfortunately, though, I had quite some problems in adding my
collection of photos: I tried importing a folder with a couple of
thousands of photos and, after the folder scan, Digikam used more than
10GB of memory for a couple of minutes. When I tried adding another
bigger folder (say with 20-30'000 photos) it could not complete the
operation. After the folder scan it crashed after having filled up all
the available memory (say 7GB of RAM + 14 of swap...).
After that I tough that using mysql as a DB could improve things. Well,
unfortunately I wasn't able to use it neither: when I tried to create a
new Mysql DB from the preferences (or to import a DB in Mysql) I got an
error message stating "failed to create tables in database" (or "error
while creating the database schema" when trying to import). It is not a
problem with DB permissions (I even tried to use the DB admin account...).

Any suggestion on how to solve these problems? I would anyway prefer
using mysql.

Thanks for your help.

Regards,
        Alberto

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[Alberto Ferrante]

Hi again,
today I tried Digikam 2.3 and the behavior with MySQL is still the same.
Let me only add that tables and views are created in the digikam schema,
but not in the thumbnails one. Any idea if it is due to an
incompatibility between digikam and MySQL 5.5 or what?

I'm now checking if Digikam 2.3 I can import my collections even by
using SQLite.

Regards,
   Alberto

On 11/11/2011 12:12 AM, Alberto Ferrante wrote:

> Hi all,
> I really like Digikam and I would like to use it to manage my photo
> archive. Unfortunately, though, I had quite some problems in adding my
> collection of photos: I tried importing a folder with a couple of
> thousands of photos and, after the folder scan, Digikam used more than
> 10GB of memory for a couple of minutes. When I tried adding another
> bigger folder (say with 20-30'000 photos) it could not complete the
> operation. After the folder scan it crashed after having filled up all
> the available memory (say 7GB of RAM + 14 of swap...).
> After that I tough that using mysql as a DB could improve things. Well,
> unfortunately I wasn't able to use it neither: when I tried to create a
> new Mysql DB from the preferences (or to import a DB in Mysql) I got an
> error message stating "failed to create tables in database" (or "error
> while creating the database schema" when trying to import). It is not a
> problem with DB permissions (I even tried to use the DB admin account...).
>
> Any suggestion on how to solve these problems? I would anyway prefer
> using mysql.

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