Temporarily override the 'write to file' metadata setting

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How can I provide more information? Digikam doesn't crash, but it is stucked with 66 pictures in the batch tool manager, though I have change the setting to "Write to XMP sidecar only". When I click on the arrow next to the progress bar, I get many "Copying attributes" lines with 0% progression, and nothing seems to move any longer.
I clicked on every cancel button in order to speed up the process, but it only says "Aborting" without giving up.
I'll have to kill-relaunch Digikam one more time ... :-(

I'm now in the process of to resizing to different sizes + converting to JPEG about 500 pictures in order to create a book, and this will take me some time, as Digikam freezes on each queue and I have to kill it every time.

Marie-Noëlle

2014-01-31 Marie-Noëlle Augendre <[hidden email]>:

No, it usually doesn't crash, but get stucked and never ends so that I have to kill it.
That last, I didn't have to, but it took quite a long time to finish.

What about all thesecheckRetrySQLiteLockError: Detected locked messages?

Marie-Noëlle

2014-01-31 Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]>:

[Inferior 1 (process 8698) exited normally]

^^^

There is no crash here, so no backtrace...

Gilles

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I made some progress:

 - I used the tool "remove metadata" and, provided I killed beforehand all the remaining orphan processes, Digikam was able to run my queues without freezing anymore.

 - and regarding the question of the temporary files we talked about the other day, I can confirm that they are written in the destination folder (on my internal harddisk, not on the USB one) where I found those that have not been deleted by Digikam when I had to kill it.

So I now have a solution for the whole batches of pictures that are to be printed: using the remove metadata tool when using the batch tool manager.
The problem remains for pictures I want to publish on the web, as for them I need to keep the metadata... till a real solution arises, I guess I'll have to treat them by little batches, so that Digikam will not get stucked in the middle of the way. And remember to "clean up" any orphan process before relaunching Digikam.

Marie-Noëlle

2014-02-03 Marie-Noëlle Augendre <[hidden email]>:

How can I provide more information? Digikam doesn't crash, but it is stucked with 66 pictures in the batch tool manager, though I have change the setting to "Write to XMP sidecar only". When I click on the arrow next to the progress bar, I get many "Copying attributes" lines with 0% progression, and nothing seems to move any longer.
I clicked on every cancel button in order to speed up the process, but it only says "Aborting" without giving up.
I'll have to kill-relaunch Digikam one more time ... :-(

I'm now in the process of to resizing to different sizes + converting to JPEG about 500 pictures in order to create a book, and this will take me some time, as Digikam freezes on each queue and I have to kill it every time.

Marie-Noëlle

2014-01-31 Marie-Noëlle Augendre <[hidden email]>:

No, it usually doesn't crash, but get stucked and never ends so that I have to kill it.

That last, I didn't have to, but it took quite a long time to finish.

What about all thesecheckRetrySQLiteLockError: Detected locked messages?

Marie-Noëlle

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Marie-Noëlle,

As an alternative, assuming you work in the linux environment, why not
try ImageMagick[1]. This is how I bulk process all my photos. To resize
the images is relatively easy.

convert $IMAGE -resize 600x600\> $SMALLER_IMAGE

you can bulk convert many images by creating a script file that
processes the files in a directory one by one.

[1] http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/

On 04/02/14 06:59, Marie-Noëlle Augendre wrote:

> I made some progress:
>   - I used the tool "remove metadata" and, provided I killed beforehand
> all the remaining orphan processes, Digikam was able to run my queues
> without freezing anymore.
>   - and regarding the question of the temporary files we talked about
> the other day, I can confirm that they are written in the destination
> folder (on my internal harddisk, not on the USB one) where I found those
> that have not been deleted by Digikam when I had to kill it.
>
> So I now have a solution for the whole batches of pictures that are to
> be printed: using the remove metadata tool when using the batch tool
> manager.
> The problem remains for pictures I want to publish on the web, as for
> them I need to keep the metadata... till a real solution arises, I guess
> I'll have to treat them by little batches, so that Digikam will not get
> stucked in the middle of the way. And remember to "clean up" any orphan
> process before relaunching Digikam.
>
> Marie-Noëlle
>
>
> 2014-02-03 Marie-Noëlle Augendre <[hidden email]
> <mailto:[hidden email]>>:
>
>     How can I provide more information? Digikam doesn't crash, but it is
>     stucked with 66 pictures in the batch tool manager, though I have
>     change the setting to "Write to XMP sidecar only". When I click on
>     the arrow next to the progress bar, I get many "Copying attributes"
>     lines with 0% progression, and nothing seems to move any longer.
>     I clicked on every cancel button in order to speed up the process,
>     but it only says "Aborting" without giving up.
>     I'll have to kill-relaunch Digikam one more time ... :-(
>
>     I'm now in the process of to resizing to different sizes +
>     converting to JPEG about 500 pictures in order to create a book, and
>     this will take me some time, as Digikam freezes on each queue and I
>     have to kill it every time.
>
>     Marie-Noëlle
>
>
>     2014-01-31 Marie-Noëlle Augendre <[hidden email]
>     <mailto:[hidden email]>>:
>
>         No, it usually doesn't crash, but get stucked and never ends so
>         that I have to kill it.
>
>         That last, I didn't have to, but it took quite a long time to
>         finish.
>         What about all thesecheckRetrySQLiteLockError: Detected locked
>         messages?
>
>         Marie-Noëlle
>
>
>
>
>
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[tosca]

I'd rather stick to Digikam, as I need to make rather complicate selections before running the batch tool manager. I use the color tags a lot in order to select and group the pictures.
For about 550 pictures, I have 10 different sizes depending how big the final picture will be in the book. And I'll probably do it several times for some few pictures, if I decide to move them around, or give them more or less importance...

Thanks for the idea, anyway.

2014-02-04 Simon Cropper <[hidden email]>:

Marie-Noëlle,

As an alternative, assuming you work in the linux environment, why not try ImageMagick[1]. This is how I bulk process all my photos. To resize the images is relatively easy.

convert $IMAGE -resize 600x600\> $SMALLER_IMAGE

you can bulk convert many images by creating a script file that processes the files in a directory one by one.

[1] http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/

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