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Is it just me or is the search facility in Digikam really strange?
I.e. I click on the search button on the left hand side and I see searches I've already done but no apparent way to do a new search. The only way to do a new search seems to be to edit an existing search. Surely people expect, when they click on search, to see a search box where they enter what they want to search for. Futher, it seems to be a bit broken. I searched for some pictures of a friends by their family name, I found them OK. I then tried to copy from the search to a CD, i.e. "Select All" and then "Export" but that doesn't work. So I dragged them to a new folder, then realised I'd moved them rather than copying them and copied them back to the places where they'd come from. However even though the images are back in their original albums *and* in the album I copied them to Search no longer finds them. I've stopped and restarted Digikam, etc. etc. but search still doesn't find them. The captions are fine though. I've also resynchonised the Albums with the database, still no joy. ... oh, Digikam 0.9.4 on Fedora. -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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On Sunday 10 August 2008 19:28:48 Chris G wrote: > Is it just me or is the search facility in Digikam really strange? > > I.e. I click on the search button on the left hand side and I see > searches I've already done but no apparent way to do a new search. > The only way to do a new search seems to be to edit an existing search. > > Surely people expect, when they click on search, to see a search box > where they enter what they want to search for. Possibly. In the 0.10 version it is implemented. There are 3 ways to start a new search: a) from the Tools menu b) from the shortcut Ctrl-F c) from the context menu in the sidebar a and b work from all views and sidebars > > Futher, it seems to be a bit broken. I searched for some pictures of > a friends by their family name, I found them OK. I then tried to copy > from the search to a CD, i.e. "Select All" and then "Export" but that Export works for Albums and tags only. As Cohan said, for searches the best way is to D&D to K3b. > doesn't work. So I dragged them to a new folder, then realised I'd > moved them rather than copying them and copied them back to the places > where they'd come from. However even though the images are back in > their original albums *and* in the album I copied them to Search no > longer finds them. I've stopped and restarted Digikam, etc. etc. but > search still doesn't find them. The captions are fine though. I've > also resynchonised the Albums with the database, still no joy. Which way did you synchronize DB->files or files->DB? Gerhard > > ... oh, Digikam 0.9.4 on Fedora. _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:00:35AM +0200, Gerhard Kulzer wrote:
[snip] Thanks for the answers to my first few questions. > > > moved them rather than copying them and copied them back to the places > > > where they'd come from. However even though the images are back in > > > their original albums *and* in the album I copied them to Search no > > > longer finds them. I've stopped and restarted Digikam, etc. etc. but > > > search still doesn't find them. The captions are fine though. I've > > > also resynchonised the Albums with the database, still no joy. > > Which way did you synchronize DB->files or files->DB? > > Gerhard > > > > > > ... oh, Digikam 0.9.4 on Fedora. -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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On Monday 11 August 2008 11:24:36 Chris G wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:00:35AM +0200, Gerhard Kulzer wrote: > [snip] > > Thanks for the answers to my first few questions. > > > > moved them rather than copying them and copied them back to the > > > places > > > > > > where they'd come from. However even though the images are back in > > > > > > their original albums *and* in the album I copied them to Search no > > > > > > longer finds them. I've stopped and restarted Digikam, etc. etc. but > > > > > > search still doesn't find them. The captions are fine though. I've > > > > > > also resynchonised the Albums with the database, still no joy. > > > > Which way did you synchronize DB->files or files->DB? > > > > Gerhard > > I did "Synchronize Images with database" in the Album menu. > That is the direction DB->images, the metadata in the images was overwritten by the DB. Maybe that can explain why you can't find the image selection anymore? Gerhard _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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